FZF is not found even if it is installed

[eriksdev1]

Good day, I installed the extension for ulauncher from the ulauncher site and found this github site, I'm creating an issue as I have installed fzf from its own github and is working but ulauncher's extension is not detecting it, any help is much appreciated

im on debian 12 stable, xfce, gnome dark prof theme

Thank you

[friday]

You haven't installed fzf to a location inside your $PATH. If you had installed it, then which fzf would print the location (/usr/bin/fzf), you could call it by just typing fzf from any location, and this extension would not show this warning.

What you have done is probably to build and run it from the source, or maybe installed it to a location outside of PATH.

Since you're on Debian, run sudo apt install fzf.

[eriksdev1]

@friday thank you so much, knowing the default install path of (/usr/bin/fzf), and which fzf helped me, thank you so much !!

[DerTobi75]

@friday & @hillaryychan I had to reinstall fzf, because I needed a newrer Version of fzf for another tool. So I installed fzf from GIT in /home/tobias/.fzf/bin/fzf that path is also added to my $PATH Variable.

But I still get the Error Message about the Missing Dependency.

[friday]

So if you run which fzf it shows that? And if you run PATH=$(getconf PATH) which fzf it does not? Sounds like https://github.com/Ulauncher/Ulauncher/discussions/1351

[DerTobi75]

Ok thanks, so I would extend that file like:

[Service] Enviroment="FZF=/home/tobias/.fzf/bin/fzf"

[friday]

No. That would set FZF as an environment variable, you'd have to do something like Enviroment="PATH=/home/tobias/.fzf/bin:$PATH", but that's a very backwards approach (I linked to that because I think it's the same root cause, but I don't suggest overriding the unit file unless you really have to).

Your want your system dependencies using other system dependencies, not binaries in your home dir. So install it proper from the system package and keep your custom build, as that should override that one for you (assuming you appended to your path correctly), but not Ulauncher.

[friday]

Basically sudo apt install fzf or whatever your package manager command is, then it should work. If which fzf still outputs your local version, then it will work.

[DerTobi75]

Ubuntu has an old version of FZF in their Package Manager, which is too old for another tool I am using :-(

[DerTobi75]

You can close that issue. Found a workaround for me, to get ulauncher work with my FZF Version.

Thanks for your help.

[souhaiebtar]

you can just use symlink, it did work for me,

sudo ln -s /home/MY_USERNAME/.fzf/bin/fzf /usr/bin/fzf

you can change /home/MY_USERNAME/.fzf/bin/fzf with the path of fzf in your system