bin does not have default download dir by default

[walidshaari]

Tried this at fedora and Ubuntu, OS is not a factor, did try it with an old release 0.6, same issue

./bin_0.8.0_Linux_x86_64 install github.com/marcosnils/bin

Pick a default download dir: 

 Select an option: 
Invalid option

[marcosnils]

hey @walidshaari!

can you please add the debug flag to bin and paste the output here?

bin tries to suggest a default download dir on *nix systems based on the PATH dirs that it finds and checking if the current user that's executing bin can actually write there. Do you have your PATH variable set?

Apart from improving the error message, imagine that bin can't find any directory automatically that can be used. What would you've liked to have done to configure it?

[walidshaari]

I solved it by using sudo, and copying the config.json file from /root to user home dir and changing it. here is the debug file if It is freshly installed

tester@vm01:~$ /tmp/bin_0.8.0_Linux_x86_64 --debug install https://github.com/marcosnils/bin
   • debug logs enabled       
   • Config directory is: /home/tester/.bin
   • User PATH is [/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin]
   • Checking path /usr/local/sbin
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /usr/local/bin
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /usr/sbin  
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /usr/bin   
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /sbin      
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /bin       
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /usr/games 
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /usr/local/games
   • Error [permission denied] checking path
   • Checking path /snap/bin  
   • Error [permission denied] checking path

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[walidshaari]

adding a directory to the list of paths above as in export PATH=/home/tester/.bin:$PATH solves it

[frezbo]

@walidshaari on a fresh os install I had ~/.local/bin in the PATH, but ~/.local/bin folder was missing, hence bin couldn't find any directory it can write.

Fix is to do mkdir -p ~/.local/bin

[marcosnils]

Fixed in #108