text: user6448: I am trying to install SRA Toolkit on MacOS, following all the instructions from NCBI website. It is installed but fastq-dump cannot be executed because "cannot execute binary files". I tried "chmod +x", noah from home-brew to make binary executable on MacOS but fast-dump still cannot be executed. I attached the screenshot of my terminal window. Can anyone help? 
  
  user77: You can't run Linux binaries on OSX (or vice versa). Download Mac OSX binaries.
  
original_text: 6448: <p>I am trying to install SRA Toolkit on MacOS, following all the instructions from NCBI website. It is installed but fastq-dump cannot be executed because "cannot execute binary files". I tried "chmod +x", noah from home-brew to make binary executable on MacOS but fast-dump still cannot be executed. I attached the screenshot of my terminal window. Can anyone help? <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kfpqq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kfpqq.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
   77: <p>You can't run Linux binaries on OSX (or vice versa). Download Mac OSX binaries.</p>
  