Reputation: 1321

How to resolve "dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path.." error

I was trying to check the AWS-CLI version on my MAC OS X. And the below error hit back:

dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../.Python
  Referenced from: /usr/local/aws/bin/python
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

Any relevant inputs on how to fix this would be highly appreciated.

Upvotes: 131

Answers (13)

Mayomi Ayandiran

Reputation: 851

This worked for me

I uninstall awscli brew uninstall awscli

Then installed in raw curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"

unzip awscli-bundle.zip

create a link between python3 sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python

Install sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

Upvotes: 0

mathéo

Reputation: 21

I tried all the above solutions and nothing worked then I tried this from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/v1/userguide/install-macos.html and it worked :
sudo /usr/local/bin/python3.7 awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

Upvotes: 2

André

Reputation: 2142

If you installed AWS CLI via curl according to AWS' official instructions at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html, simply rerunning these commands without any prior deletions solved it for me:

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
sudo installer -pkg ./AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /

Upvotes: 0

Bartłomiej Skwira

Reputation: 1848

If:

you reinstalled/relinked awscli
and are experiencing this issue while you work on a Python Poetry virtual env

Then just delete the env like:

# MacOS paths
rm -rf /Users/<user>/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/<your_virtual_env_name>

To get the name and path of the env you can do:

poetry shell

There will be an error similar to this:

 EnvCommandError

  Command ['/Users/<user>/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/<your_virtual_env_name>/bin/python', '-W', 'ignore', '-'] ...

Copy the env path, do rm -rf <path> and after that do poetry shell

Upvotes: 0

msenatori

Reputation: 1

This work for me.

brew upgrade
brew uninstall aws-sam-cli
brew install aws-sam-cli

Upvotes: 0

Andrew

Reputation: 832

This error occurs because your virtual environment has broken symlinks. Here is a nice solution taken from tevino's fix_virtualenv gist:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

ENV_PATH="$(dirname "$(dirname "$(which pip)")")"
SYSTEM_VIRTUALENV="$(which -a virtualenv|tail -1)"

BAD_ENV_PATHS="/usr/local"

echo "Ensure the root of the broken virtualenv:"
echo "    $ENV_PATH"

if [[ -z "$ENV_PATH" ]] || [[ "$ENV_PATH" = *"$BAD_ENV_PATHS"* ]]; then
    echo "The root path above doesn't seems to be a valid one."
    echo "Please make sure you ACTIVATED the broken virtualenv."
    echo "‼️  Exiting for your safety... (thanks @laymonk for reporting this)"
    exit 1
fi

read -p "‼️  Press Enter if you are not sure (y/N) " -n 1 -r
echo
if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
    echo "♻️  Removing old symbolic links......"
    find "$ENV_PATH" -type l -delete -print
    echo "💫  Creating new symbolic links......"
    $SYSTEM_VIRTUALENV "$ENV_PATH"
    echo "🎉  Done!"
fi

Also, here is a similar question: Broken references in Virtualenvs.

Upvotes: 18

Gleb Belyaev

Reputation: 1049

After read the topic, It works for me:

Uninstall aws

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/aws
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/aws

Reinstall it again

    $ brew reinstall awscli

Upvotes: 27

Will

Reputation: 7057

It's possible to trigger this error by having a problem in your virtualenv. For example, I had an existing working virtualenv and ran brew install awscli and it broke my virtualenv with this error. If that's the case, deleting and recreating your virtualenv (the same way you originally created it) should resolve the problem. It did for me.

Upvotes: 2

Hamdi Al-Haj

Reputation: 21

I had it installed through curl, the regular way

$ curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"

Then it stopped working complaining about not finding python2.7

dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../.Python
  Referenced from: /usr/local/aws/bin/python2.7
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

so I fixed it by following these steps (make sure you don't do this if you installed it through brew):

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/aws
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/aws

Then I installed it using brew:

$ brew upgrade
$ brew install awscli

Upvotes: 2

Alona Honcharova

Reputation: 56

If you have already python (python --version works. If not install it with brew install python). It works for me:

Uninstall aws

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/aws
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/aws

Install it again

$ curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
$ unzip awscli-bundle.zip
$ sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

Upvotes: 3