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XinyuHou committed Dec 7, 2016
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@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ To install on Mac OS X with the .zip distribution (first seen in 1.3.6) you must
1. Extract the zip file to any location (usually double click will do this)
2. Open Terminal, and cd to the extracted directory (e.g. /Users/my-name/Downloads/extracted-dir/)
- 3. Change to super user (use the su command)
- 4. Copy the binaries to /usr/bin using: cp synergy* /usr/bin
+ 3. Copy the binaries to /usr/bin using: sudo cp synergy* /usr/bin
+ 4. Correct the permissions and ownership: sudo chown root:wheel /usr/bin/synergy*; sudo chmod 555 /usr/bin/synergy*
-How to enable the root user in Mac OS X:
+Alternatively, you can copy the binaries as root. How to enable the root user in Mac OS X:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht1528
Once the binaries have been copied to /usr/bin, you should follow the configuration guide:

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