Describe the bug
installed instaloader 4.2.09 ran fine for a few weeks. Began having issue #433 replaced ...instaloadercontext.py. Worked for a run until I realized that I forgot some flags/variables. ran again and got instaloader: command not found searched my shell history for las known working call with variables and again instaloader: command not found
$ pip3 uninstall instaloader
$pip3 install instaloader
saw that I had instaloader 4.2.09 and 4.2.10, deleted those folders, reran pip3 un/install instaloader, still have instaloader: command not found
To Reproduce
$ instaloader +/path/to/args.txt
instaloader: command not found
Expected behavior
instaloader downloads jpg/mp4 of specified profiles
Error messages and tracebacks
gallo@dirty_debbie:~ pip3 install instaloader
Collecting instaloader
Collecting requests>=2.4 (from instaloader)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/51/bd/23c926cd341ea6b7dd0b2a00aba99ae0f828be89d72b2190f27c11d4b7fb/requests-2.22.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests>=2.4->instaloader)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/18/b0/8146a4f8dd402f60744fa380bc73ca47303cccf8b9190fd16a827281eac2/certifi-2019.9.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting idna<2.9,>=2.5 (from requests>=2.4->instaloader)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/14/2c/cd551d81dbe15200be1cf41cd03869a46fe7226e7450af7a6545bfc474c9/idna-2.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 (from requests>=2.4->instaloader)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bc/a9/01ffebfb562e4274b6487b4bb1ddec7ca55ec7510b22e4c51f14098443b8/chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1 (from requests>=2.4->instaloader)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e0/da/55f51ea951e1b7c63a579c09dd7db825bb730ec1fe9c0180fc77bfb31448/urllib3-1.25.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: certifi, idna, chardet, urllib3, requests, instaloader
Successfully installed certifi-2019.9.11 chardet-3.0.4 idna-2.8 instaloader-4.2.10 requests-2.22.0 urllib3-1.25.6
gallo@dirty_debbie:~ instaloader
instaloader: command not found
gallo@dirty_debbie:~ ls -a .local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/
./ certifi-2019.9.11.dist-info/ idna/ instaloader-4.2.10.dist-info/ urllib3/
../ chardet/ idna-2.8.dist-info/ requests/ urllib3-1.25.6.dist-info/
certifi/ chardet-3.0.4.dist-info/ instaloader/ requests-2.22.0.dist-info/
gallo@dirty_debbie:~
Instaloader version
instaloader 4.2.10
Additional context
no clue
(please also see https://instaloader.github.io/contributing.html for how to report a bug)
Hi. Maybe ~/.local/bin is not part of your $PATH environment variable. That's the location where pip installs a script to run Instaloader. If it's missing, add a line like
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
to your ~/.bashrc file.
Most helpful comment
Hi. Maybe
~/.local/binis not part of your$PATHenvironment variable. That's the location where pip installs a script to run Instaloader. If it's missing, add a line liketo your
~/.bashrcfile.