Unable to run when installed using "dotnet tool install"
tipa opened this issue · 7 comments
Initially reported here: xamarin/xamarin-macios#10249 (comment)
The acquisition/update of the tool, via dotnet tool, is out of my control - it's a dotnet feature.
I suspect something is wrong in your PATH so the symlinks created by dotnet tools are not accessible.
The symlinks are created under ~/.dotnet/tools, that's what I have locally
l ~/.dotnet/tools total 2040
drwxr-xr-x 10 poupou staff 320B 22 Aug 17:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 107 poupou staff 3.3K 17 Aug 13:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x 10 poupou staff 320B 22 Aug 17:04 .store
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 144K 22 Aug 17:04 appcompare
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 144K 13 Feb 2022 cilout
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 144K 20 Apr 20:09 dotnet-cake
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 144K 7 Feb 2022 dotnet-releaser
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 129K 1 Mar 20:58 dotnet-trace
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 144K 22 Dec 2021 ilspycmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 poupou staff 144K 8 Aug 11:39 uno-check
and ~/.dotnet/tools is part of my PATH, which you can see with exports, e.g.
$ export | grep ~/.dotnet/tools PATH='/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/share/dotnet:~/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands:/Users/poupou/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands'
Actually it seems I have it twice as ~/.dotnet/tools and /Users/poupou/.dotnet/tools - not quite sure why, it's part of dotnet installation.
$ export | grep ~/.dotnet/tools
There no cmd output when I call this
And that's what I see in the ~/.dotnet/tools folder
echo $PATH puts out this:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/share/dotnet:~/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands
My bad. There's no output because ~ gets expanded by the shell to /Users/timopartl and this one is not in your PATH. It worked for me because both entries are present.
Can you run dotnet-cake ?
$ dotnet-cake
Error: Bootstrapping failed for '/Users/poupou/git/external/uno/uno/build.cake'.
build.cake, line #0: Could not find script '/Users/poupou/git/external/uno/uno/build.cake'.
this also give an error :(
zsh: command not found: dotnet-cake
Maybe there's simply some dotnet issue on my machine, completely unrelated to your tool...
yeah, I don't see how it could be related to appcompare.
OTOH adding /Users/timopartl/.dotnet/tools to your PATH would probably solve the issue :)
It indeed does! Thanks for your help, despite this not being a problem of your tool at all.
Looking forward to using it
Btw, newer .NET SDKs seem to give a warning on the tool installation when the PATH doesn't include the tool directory. It shows instructions on how to correct that:
filipnavara@172-4-1-20 emclient-temp % dotnet tool install -g appcompare
Tools directory '/Users/filipnavara/.dotnet/tools' is not currently on the PATH environment variable.
If you are using zsh, you can add it to your profile by running the following command:
cat << \EOF >> ~/.zprofile
# Add .NET Core SDK tools
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/filipnavara/.dotnet/tools"
EOF
And run `zsh -l` to make it available for current session.
You can only add it to the current session by running the following command:
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/filipnavara/.dotnet/tools"
You can invoke the tool using the following command: appcompare
Tool 'appcompare' (version '2.3.0') was successfully installed.