Global dotnet tool install not finding global tools after installation on Linux with SDK installed

[RickStrahl]

I'm trying to install several .NET Core Tools globally and it looks like the installation is working fine, however the path to launch the files does not appear to be set properly.

What I'm doing:

• dotnet tool install -g LiveReloadServer (or whatever none of them work)
• Close the terminal
• Start terminal
• Run LiveReloadServer

This results in command not found

The tools are installed properly it looks like:

Just not linked properly via PATH.

Additional Information

I installed the SDK from the Dotnet download page here, using the instructions on that page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-package-manager-ubuntu-1910#install-the-net-core-sdk

Install seems to work fine otherwise - I can build and run projects etc. But it looks like the installer didn't add the path to ~/.dotnet/tools (or any .dotnet path).

[Swimburger]

I have a similar issue on macOS. ~/.dotnet/tools can be found in the PATH environment variable, but it still does not work. I added the following line to the .zshrc file, to add the path to the PATH environment variable without using the tilde shortcut (~). export PATH=$PATH:~/.dotnet/tools This seemed to fix it for me. Btw, I use the tilde in this script, but the result in the environment variable is the full path /Users/nswimberghe/.dotnet/tools, so zshell is probably turning that into the full path implicitly.

I'm not sure if using the tilde shortcut is supported on macOS, but it didn't work on my machine, and none of the other paths in the environment variable use the tilde shortcut. After using the full path, I could invoke global dotnet tools again.