PyInstaller on Mac ... does not work easily?

[mu234]

python 3.9

will have a look at what you are saying ... thanks!

What version of Python are you running,the path look a little strange.
Look at The right and wrong way to set Python 3 as default on a Mac
So recently pyinstaller is now also updated for Python 3.9.

Should not need to run pyinstaller as sudo.
Not sure on permissions setup Mac,can make a virtual environment(build into python) that should fix permissions issues.

Quick demo.

tom@tom-VirtualBox:~$ python -V
Python 3.8.5
tom@tom-VirtualBox:~$ pip -V
pip 20.2.3 from /home/tom/.pyenv/versions/3.8.5/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)

# Make 
tom@tom-VirtualBox:~$ python -m venv py_env

# cd in
tom@tom-VirtualBox:~$ cd py_env

# Activate 
tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/py_env$ source bin/activate

# Install
(py_env) tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/py_env$ pip install pyinstaller
Collecting pyinstaller
  Downloading pyinstaller-4.1.tar.gz (3.5 MB) .....
  
Successfully installed altgraph-0.17 pyinstaller-4.1 pyinstaller-hooks-contrib-2020.10

# Now will pyisntaller run from this folder
(py_env) tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/py_env$ which pyinstaller
/home/tom/py_env/bin/pyinstaller