# Beginner: can't set up Q on mac **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Support\ **Tags:** kdb-and-q\ **Created:** [September 27, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950 "2019-09-27T15:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![glorieuxh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@glorieuxh](https://forum.kx.com/u/glorieuxh)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/1 "2019-09-27T15:49:00Z")
Hi there, I am having trouble setting up Q. I am using a mac and downloaded the 34bit package.  I then run q/m32/q in my downloads folder on the terminal as mentioned in the kx tutorial (https://code.kx.com/v2/learn/install/macos/). It returns  KDB+ 3.6 2019.04.02 Copyright (C) 1993-2019 Kx Systems p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000; min-height: 13.0px}span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures} m32/ 4()core 4096MB owner iglorieux.home 192.168.1.18 NONEXPIRE   '/Users/owner/q/q.k. OS reports: No such file or directory 0:: `/Users/owner/q/q.k So I can’t figure out how to have the ‘q)’ in terminal to start coding. Also, can we use IDEs to run Q or is it only in the terminal? Thanks in advance,  Victor ---
**Author:** ![Nick10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@Nick10](https://forum.kx.com/u/Nick10)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/2 "2019-09-29T01:22:00Z")
the error indicates that q can’t find the file: q.k this is located in the extracted zip file. once you export the QHOME environment variable to the directory containing the q.k file, running q should no longer throw this exception. ---
**Author:** ![iodwyer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@iodwyer1](https://forum.kx.com/u/iodwyer1)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/3 "2019-09-29T13:01:00Z")
Hi Victor, With regards to an IDE, see here: https://code.kx.com/developer/getting-started/ Note: “To install and use Developer, a user must have installed 64bit kdb+ 3.4+ and set the required q environment variables (`QHOME`, `QLIC`, append q to `PATH`)” And.. “Users can obtain a free copy of 64bit kdb+ for personal, non-commercial use from [https://ondemand.kx.com/.](https://ondemand.kx.com/.)” Thanks, Ian On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 3:56:46 PM UTC+1, Victor wrote: > Hi there, > > I am having trouble setting up Q. > > I am using a mac and downloaded the 34bit package.  > > I then run q/m32/q in my downloads folder on the terminal as mentioned in the kx tutorial (https://code.kx.com/v2/learn/install/macos/). > > It returns  > > KDB+ 3.6 2019.04.02 Copyright (C) 1993-2019 Kx Systems > > m32/ 4()core 4096MB owner iglorieux.home 192.168.1.18 NONEXPIRE   > > '/Users/owner/q/q.k. OS reports: No such file or directory > > 0:: > > `/Users/owner/q/q.k > > So I can’t figure out how to have the ‘q)’ in terminal to start coding. > > Also, can we use IDEs to run Q or is it only in the terminal? > > Thanks in advance,  > > Victor ---
**Author:** ![Nick10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@Nick10](https://forum.kx.com/u/Nick10)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/4 "2019-09-29T17:17:00Z")
in addition to the many editor integrations for kdb+: https://code.kx.com/v2/interfaces/#editor-integrations there are also many IDEs: https://code.kx.com/v2/learn/startingkdb/ ---
**Author:** ![glorieuxh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@glorieuxh](https://forum.kx.com/u/glorieuxh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/5 "2019-09-29T18:42:00Z")
Thanks a lot Ian, I appreciate your help! ---
**Author:** ![glorieuxh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@glorieuxh](https://forum.kx.com/u/glorieuxh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/6 "2019-09-29T18:42:00Z")
Thanks a lot ---
**Author:** ![glorieuxh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@glorieuxh](https://forum.kx.com/u/glorieuxh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/beginner-cant-set-up-q-on-mac/11950/7 "2019-09-29T18:51:00Z")
Perfect, thanks a lot. All I needed was to copy-paste the downloaded q file in /users/owner/.