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Reputation:

How to make pip install to PATH on Linux?

I installed PyInstaller via pip, but when I try to run it I get pyinstaller: command not found
After installation of the package the following warning was displayed:

WARNING: The scripts pyi-archive_viewer, pyi-bindepend, pyi-grab_version, pyi-makespec, pyi-set_version and pyinstaller are installed in '/home/kevinapetrei/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.

Do you know how can I make it so pip installs everything straight to PATH?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 50009

Answers (1)

Jorenar
Jorenar

Reputation: 2884

Rather than messing with existing entires in PATH, consider appending to it the location from pip.

It usually is ~/.local/bin (consistent with systemd's file-hierarchy).

Good place to add/modify environmental variables is ~/.profile file.
You do it by adding the following line:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

You may also consider ~/.pam_environment (but it has slightly different syntax).

For those wondering about the actual answer to the question:
It used to be somewhat possible in old versions of Python 3, but the option got patched away.

Upvotes: 28

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