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The core machinery of Alda
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Command not found - El Capitan, Mac OS #70

Closed sbandx closed 5 years ago

sbandx commented 5 years ago

I have Java 8 installed, and get command not found error when trying to update or use alda up

TBuc commented 5 years ago

Hi @sbandx, seems alda is not in your path.

Could you try changing your terminal's directory to the one where alda is located before issuing the alda up command and let me know?

In case it still doesn't work, a screenshot of your terminal where the command fails could help assisting you.

sbandx commented 5 years ago

I am changing to the directory where 'alda' is located and am using the latest available version:

ElCapitan:Applications serge$ pwd /Users/serge/Applications ElCapitan:Applications serge$ ls Audacity alda BlueJ alda-master Cassio javaforosx.dmg Certificates jre-8u201-macosx-x64.dmg Chrome Apps.localized jre-8u201-macosx-x64.tar.gz ClamXAV.app swell-foop POVray swell-foop-js ElCapitan:Applications serge$ alda up -bash: alda: command not found ElCapitan:Applications serge$

sbandx commented 5 years ago

alda has execute permissions: -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 serge staff 7149618 Mar 26 07:42 alda

TBuc commented 5 years ago

I don't recall if MacOS requires ./ prefix in order to execute binaries. To clear any doubt, could you try issuing ./alda in place of alda in your terminal and let me know the outcome?

daveyarwood commented 5 years ago

If you are in the directory where alda is located, you can run it with ./alda (meaning "run the program in this directory called alda")

It is more convenient to put alda on your PATH so that it can be run (as alda, not ./alda) from any directory.

To see your PATH, run echo $PATH. You can put alda in any of those directories. I think /usr/local/bin is typically included in the PATH on MacOS, but I'm not 100% sure.

sbandx commented 5 years ago

That was it.. ./alda

thank you