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My story in a nutshell (why I want to do what I'm describing below): my /usr/bin/ld is broken and it's broken for a at least a year it seems. I have a friend of mine with a version of ld from 2023 which works fine. The problem is that I cannot install it because Mac doesn't allow me to edit files in /usr/bin. Just in case - I know what I want to do and I won't break my OS, I just need to do it.

So longs story short, after googling a lot about the problem the only solution proposed is to disable csrutil. Cool, but for some reason even after loginning into recovery mode I still can't update anything. Here is a couple of pictures:

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Can anyone please help with this? Why it says that I need to be in recovery mode when I'm already within one? How can I c

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  • Is this a work computer protected by some sort of additional security functions, or do you fully own and control this computer entirely on your own?
    – music2myear
    Commented Jul 3 at 22:21
  • Have you tried running csrutil clear?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 3 at 23:11
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    You can fix corrupted system binaries by re-installing macOS. You can re-install macOS without losing data or settings. support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/reinstall-macos-mchlp1599/mac
    – Spiff
    Commented Jul 4 at 1:21
  • csrutil is irrelevant as you are trying to modify the read-only part of macOS system volume. Do as @Spiff says.
    – Gilby
    Commented Jul 5 at 22:55
  • @music2myear this is my personal laptop I bought myself, from the apple store the day it was released, no second hand. I don't quite know what it could be
    – Alex Zhukovskiy
    Commented Jul 7 at 0:32

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