[DOCS] MacOS 11.1 is not supported despite the documented requirement of macOS 10.15+

[donpatricio217]

Documentation Type

Missing documentation (feature not documented)

Documentation Location

No response

Section/Topic

Current Documentation

Current Documentation

for people with older macs

the current Claude Code binaries require macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, despite the documented requirement of macOS 10.15+. The ubrk_clone error confirms the binary was built for macOS 13.0.

What's Wrong or Missing?

it's not installing properly

Suggested Improvement

ideally make the older versions available

Impact

Low - Minor confusion or inconvenience

Additional Context

this issue is only for people who have older macbooks and new to claude

[FrancisBehnen]

Imo the impact is higher. Since the docs now actively discourage the use of the NPM installer it's not clear that this is a workaround. I think that at the place the native installer and homebrew line are now it should also be mentioned that pre-macOS 13.0 one should use NPM. It took me 5 weeks to realise that I could actually still use CC on my machine.

[FrancisBehnen]

Documentation Type

Incorrect/outdated documentation

Documentation Location

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup

Section/Topic

Set up Claude Code

Current Documentation

The docs currently say: "Operating Systems: macOS 10.15+"

What's Wrong or Missing?

However, I'm unable to install on my machine running 11.7.10.

❯ curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
Setting up Claude Code...
dyld: Symbol not found: _ubrk_clone
  Referenced from: /Users/francisbehnen/.claude/downloads/claude-2.1.7-darwin-x64 (which was built for Mac OS X 13.0)
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib

bash: line 142: 16445 Abort trap: 6              "$binary_path" install ${TARGET:+"$TARGET"}

Suggested Improvement

The documentation should include how to install CC for pre-13.0 systems.

Impact

High - Prevents users from using the product

Additional Context

this issue is only for people who have older macbooks and new to claude

[coygeek]

The documentation accurately states macOS 13.0+ is required.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup

This is fixed. Close it.

[donpatricio217]

good, thanks fellas

[FrancisBehnen]

This is not true, I installed via NPM on macOS 11 last week. 10.15 is supported. This should be properly documented

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