Switching terraform version on M1 architecture Mac OS 11 (Big Sur) results in error

[warrensbox]

Switching terraform version on M1 architecture Mac OS 11 (Big Sur) results in error

[matiasict]

I have the same problem. You can fix it like this:

cd /usr/local/
sudo mkdir bin
sudo chmod 777 bin

[skyzyx]

I have the same problem. You can fix it like this:

cd /usr/local/
sudo mkdir bin
sudo chmod 777 bin

Nothing personal, but this is bad advice from a security angle.

If you find yourself setting directories to 0777, then something is wrong. Check user and group associations before setting things (especially entire directories) to 0777. Do you simply need to add your user to a particular group? On macOS, do you just need to add yourself to the wheel or admin group?

[davehowell]

Looks like there are now M1 (arm) releases since 1.0.2 https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.0.2/terraform_1.0.2_darwin_arm64.zip

I've previously added ~/bin to my PATH so I don't have any issue with this, as per #151

I tried running tfswitch in another repo, which installed 1.0.4. When I run terraform -v I can see it has installed the amd64 binary, not the arm64. It doesn't matter; that amd64 (x86_64) binary works just fine, but perhaps some point in the future it should pick the correct build for this architecture.

[blugri]

@skyzyx Are you on the M1 chipset? I have the problem on M1.

[skyzyx]

I'm on Big Sur, and I don't have this issue.

[skyzyx]

Ah. I'm on x86. I think the M1 is context I didn't see in the original post.

Terraform doesn't have official releases for M1 yet. That's probably the problem.

[pckilgore]

Seems to be a permissions issue (which idk why that would be different between Big Sur arches), easy workaround seems to be to give tfswitch a user-owned directory (I add ~/bin as top item in PATH in my profile):

(✓) 19:06:30 [~/code/pckilgore/learn-terraform-circleci::master]
$ tfswitch
Reading required version from terraform file
Reading required version from constraint: > 1.0.0
Matched version: 1.0.1
2021/06/28 19:06:45
		Unable to create new symlink.
		Maybe symlink already exist. Try removing existing symlink manually.
		Try running "unlink /usr/local/bin/terraform" to remove existing symlink.
		If error persist, you may not have the permission to create a symlink at/usr/local/bin/terraform.
		Error: symlink /Users/patrick/.terraform.versions/terraform_1.0.1 /usr/local/bin/terraform: permission denied


(✖ - 1) 19:06:45 [~/code/pckilgore/xxx::master]
$ tfswitch -b ~/bin/terraform
Reading required version from terraform file
Reading required version from constraint: > 1.0.0
Matched version: 1.0.1
Switched terraform to version "1.0.1"

(✓) 19:06:53 [~/code/pckilgore/xxx::master]
$ which terraform
/Users/patrick/bin/terraform

(✓) 19:07:00 [~/code/pckilgore/xxx::master]
$ terraform -v
Terraform v1.0.1
on darwin_amd64
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws v3.44.0
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/local v2.1.0
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/random v3.1.0
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/template v2.2.0

Happy to help debug some more if you have ideas but the workaround is pretty easy.