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1+# FUSE {#sec-fuse}
2+
3+Some packages rely on
4+[FUSE](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fuse.html) to provide
5+support for additional filesystems not supported by the kernel.
6+
7+In general, FUSE software are primarily developed for Linux but many of them can
8+also run on macOS. Nixpkgs supports FUSE packages on macOS, but it requires
9+[macFUSE](https://osxfuse.github.io) to be installed outside of Nix. macFUSE
10+currently isn't packaged in Nixpkgs mainly because it includes a kernel
11+extension, which isn't supported by Nix outside of NixOS.
12+
13+If a package fails to run on macOS with an error message similar to the
14+following, it's a likely sign that you need to have macFUSE installed.
15+
16+ dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib
17+ Referenced from: /nix/store/w8bi72bssv0bnxhwfw3xr1mvn7myf37x-sshfs-fuse-2.10/bin/sshfs
18+ Reason: image not found
19+ [1] 92299 abort /nix/store/w8bi72bssv0bnxhwfw3xr1mvn7myf37x-sshfs-fuse-2.10/bin/sshfs