cannot pass install process.

[damiankitai]

/Users/student/Downloads/mwa2_demo/run_mwa2.sh
*** Creating Django database for MWA2 ***
dyld[7275]: Library not loaded: '@executable_path/../.Python'
Referenced from: '/Users/student/Downloads/mwa2_demo/bin/python'
Reason: tried: '/Users/student/Downloads/mwa2_demo/bin/../.Python' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/.Python' (no such file), '/usr/lib/.Python' (no such file)
/Users/student/Downloads/mwa2_demo/run_mwa2.sh: line 28: 7275 Abort trap: 6 bin/python mwa2/manage.py migrate

[gregneagle]

Doesn't sound like you have Python installed. You also don't mention which branch you are working from -- anything other than the py3 branch is very unlikely to work.

[gregneagle]

If you are using the py3 branch, then you'll need to install Xcode. python3 in the virtual environment's bin directory points at Xcode's python:

$ ls -al
total 88
drwxrwxr-x  14 gneagle  wheel   448 Mar  7 09:21 .
drwxrwxr-x   8 gneagle  wheel   256 Mar  7 10:00 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 gneagle  wheel  8834 Mar  7 09:09 Activate.ps1
-rw-r--r--   1 gneagle  wheel  1901 Mar  7 09:09 activate
-rw-r--r--   1 gneagle  wheel   850 Mar  7 09:09 activate.csh
-rw-r--r--   1 gneagle  wheel  1990 Mar  7 09:09 activate.fish
-rwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel   281 Mar  7 09:21 django-admin
-rwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel   239 Mar  7 09:09 pip
-rwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel   239 Mar  7 09:09 pip3
-rwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel   239 Mar  7 09:09 pip3.9
lrwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel     7 Mar  7 09:09 python -> python3
lrwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel    58 Mar  7 09:09 python3 -> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/python3
lrwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel     7 Mar  7 09:09 python3.9 -> python3
-rwxrwxr-x   1 gneagle  wheel   234 Mar  7 09:21 sqlformat

[damiankitai]

python (latest: 3.12.5) and xcode (downloaded from the appstore) are installed.
same error.

[gregneagle]

If you look at the symlinks in the virtual env, they are looking for Python 3.9.x.

The Python included with Xcode 15.4 is Python 3.9.6.

$ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/python3 -V
Python 3.9.6

[gregneagle]

And again: it sounds like maybe you are trying to use the Python2 demo zip file, which is unlikely to work at all.