Persisting the Solana command on Linux (Ubuntu)

[litmus-zhang]

After downloading and extracting solana-cli binaries on my machine (Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04), when i open a new terminal, i cannot access the solana command.

[litmus-zhang]

@litmus-zhang working on this

[Sarvesh-Ghildiyal]

Hello there, Did you added the path to your binaries to your system path variables?

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/solana/bin change the "/path/to/solana/bin" to the actual path of your folder.

and then reload the shell to implement the changes made via

source ~/.bashrc

[litmus-zhang]

Yeah I did,I tried it on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22,same issue after rebooting the whole PC.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 4:34 PM sarvesh-git @.***> wrote:

Hello there, Did you added the path to your binaries to your system path variables?

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/solana/bin change the "/path/to/solana/bin" to the actual path of your folder.

and then reload the shell to implement the changes made via

source ~/.bashrc

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[Sarvesh-Ghildiyal]

when you add the environment variable in the particular session then in that session of terminal are you able to use the cli?

[litmus-zhang]

Unfortunately, no. That's why I created the issue.

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, 17:42 sarvesh-git, @.***> wrote:

when you add the environment variable in the particular session then in that session of terminal are you able to use the cli?

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[Sarvesh-Ghildiyal]

i dont get it then, like you are saying, if you added the path to environment variable then atleast it should atleast work on the same terminal!

can you please provide some more details, error logs or so?

[litmus-zhang]

After setting the environment variable in the terminal window, It works on that window, but when I open another window, It says "Solana command not found"

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, 17:55 sarvesh-git, @.***> wrote:

i dont get it then, like you are saying, if you added the path to environment variable then atleast it should atleast work on the same terminal!

can you please provide some more details, error logs or so?

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[Sarvesh-Ghildiyal]

Oh great! We on right track then glad 😌 it happened.

Soooo now what u gotta do is simple, just save the env variable manually open your bashrc in nano and paste the env path at the bottom of the file and save it.

nano ~/.bashrc

Then, at the bottom of file paste

export PATH=/your/directory/path:$PATH

With the actual path, save it and close it.

[Johnsonojo]

Oh great! We on right track then glad 😌 it happened.

Soooo now what u gotta do is simple, just save the env variable manually open your bashrc in nano and paste the env path at the bottom of the file and save it.

nano ~/.bashrc

Then, at the bottom of file paste

export PATH=/your/directory/path:$PATH

With the actual path, save it and close it.

Hi @Sarvesh-Ghildiyal I'm also having the same issue. I've tried your suggestions but it still doesn't work

[willian-uiu]

when you use the command export PATH="/home/userName/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:$PATH" The SOLANA CLI turn open temporaly. You have to add this command on your .bashrc for work what you want

after do this, work on normally

link of reference: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/linux-add-to-path