Poetry: Poetry Command Not Found on zsh

[swarnakumar]

• [x] I am on the latest Poetry version.
• [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• [x] If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name:
• Poetry version: <0.12.2>

Issue

I am a noob to poetry, and just installed poetry using the curl command.

I got the following:

Retrieving Poetry metadata

# Welcome to Poetry!

This will download and install the latest version of Poetry,
a dependency and package manager for Python.

It will add the `poetry` command to Poetry's bin directory, located at:

$HOME/.poetry/bin

This path will then be added to your `PATH` environment variable by
modifying the profile files located at:

$HOME/.profile
$HOME/.zprofile

You can uninstall at any time with `poetry self:uninstall`,
or by executing this script with the --uninstall option,
and these changes will be reverted.

Installing version: 0.12.2
  - Downloading poetry-0.12.2-darwin.tar.gz (7.00MB)

Poetry (0.12.2) is installed now. Great!

To get started you need Poetry's bin directory ($HOME/.poetry/bin) in your `PATH`
environment variable. Next time you log in this will be done
automatically.

To configure your current shell run `source $HOME/.poetry/env`

But when I start a new shell, and run poetry --version, I get:
zsh: command not found: poetry

Works fine if I do source $HOME/.poetry/env. But doesn't retain for a new shell. I have to do this every time I open a new shell.

[sdispater]

If you do:

echo $PATH

What does it give you?

[swarnakumar]

In a newly opened shell:

/usr/local/opt/node@8/bin:/Users/swarnavallabhaneni/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

And after sourcing via source $HOME/.poetry/env

/Users/swarnavallabhaneni/.poetry/bin:/usr/local/opt/node@8/bin:/Users/swarnavallabhaneni/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

[sdispater]

So your shell does not source neither the .zprofile file nor the .profile file. That's weird since ~/.zprofile should always be sourced by zsh.

If it's not you might want to do it yourself in your .zshrc file.

Just to be sure: has export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" been added to ~/.zprofile?

[swarnakumar]

Its weird.

I don't have a ~/.zprofile at all.

I do have a ~/.profile and that does have the line export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH"

Is it oh-my-zsh doing something?

[swarnakumar]

I have added export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" to the my .zshrc, and things work.

I notice that Google Cloud SDK automatically appended its path and path completions to my .zshrc. Maybe thats something poetry could also do?

Closing this issue.

[sdispater]

Just to check: if you create a ~/.zprofile and add export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" to it and then restart your shell, does it work? 

[swarnakumar]

Yes it does.

[xobust]

I had the same issue, my system does not have a .profile and zsh does not create a .zprofile by default.
Poetry installed in my .bash_profile. Consider adding export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" to .zshrc if no .zprofile exists.

[JayWelsh]

zsh mainly uses .zshrc, it would definitely be a good idea to check for .zshrc if no .zprofile exists. Just ran into the same issue.

[ffe4]

I'd like to mention users are still running into this issue and it would be nice if it was reopened and addressed, either during installation or in the docs.

[lggwettmann]

Yes, same issue here.

[khanguslee]

Can also confirm that this does not automatically happen. As a user, I would have expected the PATH to have been updated upon installation.

[Oscar-Rod]

Same here, I just installed it using the cURL, and in my system I only have the .zshrc, which was not updated with the export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH"

[schlich]

i'm on linux and also ran into this issue... similarly to those above the workaround of adding export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" to my ~/.bashrc file worked

[MrObonye]

Still running into the same issue.

[Dminor7]

So your shell does not source neither the .zprofile file nor the .profile file. That's weird since ~/.zprofile should always be sourced by zsh.

If it's not you might want to do it yourself in your .zshrc file.

Just to be sure: has export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" been added to ~/.zprofile?

If the PATH for poetry is there in .profile then you have to just logout from the current session and log in again. The changes in .profile will be reflected.

[adam-grant-hendry]

Same issue. No .zprofile is created. Also, .poetry folder is not created. I have Windows 10 with WSL2. Running which poetry points to my Windows poetry install and trying poetry install gives error /usr/bin/env: ‘python\r’: No such file or directory. Something is up...

[adam-grant-hendry]

Running pip install poetry at first yields

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting poetry
  Using cached poetry-1.0.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (224 kB)

then packages install. Is the user install pointing to the Windows user folder rather than the WSL distro user folder?

[adam-grant-hendry]

Even trying pip install --user poetry does not solve the problem. Only manually creating ~/.zprofile and executing export PATH="$HOME/.poetry/bin:$PATH" fixes problem.

@sdispater and @abn do we know why this is still happening?

[schlich]

I should have clarified on my comment above that I am also on WSL, although I was on WSL1 at time i encountered the bug

[HHogg]

This issue might need to be reopened as it's still an issue, and just means the install flow isn't as smooth. I had the same issue as I didn't have a .zprofile or a .profile so just had to add the path myself in the .zshrc file.