Sdk: dotnet: command not found mac OS X, dotnet-osx-x64.1.0.0.001598.pkg

[ghost]

Steps to reproduce

Install .NET Core with OSX 10.11 installer: dotnet-osx-x64.1.0.0.001598.pkg
open mac terminal:
type dotnet

symbolic links missing on post-installation

Creating links with the following fixes the issue.
ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/bin/dotnet /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/bin/csc /usr/local/bin/

Expected behavior

dotnet command runs with command line options that have been chosen.

Actual behavior

-bash: dotnet: command not found

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

None because dotnet command not found.

[guardrex]

@cantrellcode You have an old installer. Get the one from the gh repo for your platform: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/tree/rel/1.0.0

[ghost]

The install came from http://dotnet.github.io/getting-started/.

They purport that the best way to install .NET Core on OS X is to use the official PKG package from their site. This installer will install the tools and put them on your PATH.
official PKG package

Perhaps the two organizations are not tightly coupled. Found a "contact" link on that web site and sent feedback to them.

[guardrex]

They downgraded the release at that site for the Build conference stating that the experience for devs would be more stable. Use the installers or binaries from the gh repo; however, keep in mind that RC2-nightly is still just a hair unstable for large, complex projects.

[flyingsky]

same even with latest build, "dotnet: command not found"

[flyingsky]

Actually after install, i need open new terminal to run command. Then it works. Do NOT add symlink manually.

[HagamosVideojuegos]

I fix it with this command line:
ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/

[shamoonis]

@HagamosVideojuegos Thanks a lot. This works. Im running OSX 10.

[scl21]

@flyingsky opening a new terminal worked, thanks!

[TheNorthEestern]

@HagamosVideojuegos Worked for me, thanks!

[nitinsurana]

Same issue still exists. Had to manually create the symlink.

[denisedelbando]

i closed my terminal and re-opened. it is working now.

[Aphinith]

Yeah, same here. Just needed to close terminal and re-open after installing .net core.

[mythz]

Just installed latest dotnet-dev-osx-x64.1.0.0-preview2-003131.pkg from https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#macos on El Capitan and dotnet was still not in the path (even after restarting Terminal). Manually adding the symlink resolved it.

[pckben]

This issue is still not resolved today with dotnet...3148.pkg from the official web page. Please fix it.

[livarcocc]

@blackdwarf Maybe you can take a look?

@pckben Which version of OSX do you have?

[blackdwarf]

@livarcocc sure thing. For all of the people who are failing, a good set of data that would help us with diagnosing is:

• What version of macOS you are using?
• What shell are you using?
• Checking to see if /etc/local/paths.d/ path exists and if there is a a file dotnet in there?

Thanks!

[trajche]

Same thing happened with MacOs Sierra, using default Terminal and dotnet-dev-osx-x64.1.0.0-preview2-003148.pkg. Had to manually link to:
ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/

[mythz]

@livarcocc I was on El Capitan when I installed dotnet (but have since upgraded to macOS Sierra) - I used the built-in Terminal, /etc/local/paths.d/ doesn't exist for me.

[blackdwarf]

For Sierra we have a fix for the PKG installer that should've been available. @leecow and @gkhanna79 for the schedule and code movement, that is, what is the version you can use the fix in.

@trajche did you do a clean install of Sierra?

@mythz just to confirm, when you say upgrade you don't mean the clean install of Sierra?

[trajche]

@blackdwarf I did a clean install of Dotnet on a clean installed Sierra just now. Problem solved now with manual symlink so if someone else ends up here can confirm if bug is still there.

[blackdwarf]

@trajche yes, but manual symlink should not be required, which is why I'm trying to figure out where did the fix end up.

The issue is quite simple: in clean installs of Sierra, /etc/paths.d doesn't exist. The PKG installer has been updated to simply create this path if it doesn't exist.

[trajche]

@blackdwarf Ok - I think restarting Terminal fixes this error. Just tested it without the symlink after restarting terminal and it seems ok. Maybe it was written in the instructions somewhere, but I must have skipped it 😢

[rajeshkumard]

I too faced the same issue. Terminal was opened before installing the VS Code. Once Installation completes, just restart the Terminal to fix the issue and it has been tested :-)

[pwhsueh]

@HagamosVideojuegos Thanks a lot. This works. Im running OSX 10.

[mattjjohnson007]

wasn't able to get $ dotnet new bash command to work, closed terminal window and opened a new session, worked fine just as @avatart0ph and others described. good luck all!

[tmds]

@blackdwarf From what I understand the installer is doing something with /etc/local/paths.d/ to get dotnet on the PATH which requires closing and opening the terminal window. This is not mentioned in the installation instructions: https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#macos. It seems it doesn't work in all cases: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/cli/known-issues.md#users-of-zsh-z-shell-dont-get-dotnet-on-the-path-after-install.
Would it make sense to replace /etc/local/paths.d/ in the installer with ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/ in the installation instructions?
I recently setup CI. There was no way for me to 'close and open the terminal' so I created the symlink.

[SpireFlux]

Still Broken as of 3/19/2017, fixed with:

ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/

[dasMulli]

@SpireFlux a few questions to help diagnose your issue:

• Which version did you try to install? (latest version of the CLI ("sdk") is 1.0.1)
• Which version of macOS you are running.
• Which shell you use - bash or zsh. If zsh, are you using oh-myzsh?
  
  
  
  • => oh-my-zsh alters your system in a way that makes it nearly impossible for tooling to conribute locations to your $PATH which is why the manual ln -s ... command is required in this case. (not the only possible fix, but the easiest one).
  
  
• Does /etc/paths.d/dotnet contain the path to the install location (cat /etc/paths.d/dotnet should show /usr/local/share/dotnet)
• Did you close & reopen the terminal after the installation?
• Did you have any previous versions of the CLI installed on your machine?

[Moulde]

@SpireFlux Thanks, that fixed it for me as well.

I just installed by following the instructions here:
https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#macos

The version i installed: dotnet-dev-osx-x64.1.0.1

[Hongbo-Miao]

I am reading the book C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition.
My macOS is 10.12.4 and installed dotnet-dev-osx-x64.1.0.1
I got same error, @SpireFlux's way fixed it. Thanks!

[gortok]

Is this issue closed because it's OBE by a later version of .NET Core? I ran into this issue today installing the LTS version of .NET Core from the downloads page on the .NET Core website, specifically this download:

https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/9/F/B9F1AF57-C14A-4670-9973-CDF47209B5BF/dotnet-dev-osx-x64.1.0.4.pkg

I had to download LTS since my mid-2009 MBP doesn't support any OS later than El Capitan.

Would PRs be accepted to fix this issue?

[tianxiaaiwojs]

Today still cant now. use this to fix this
ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/

OSX version is Sierra 10.12.5.

[lloydtawanda]

l faced the same situation problem after i installed dotnet-sdk-2.0. I had to restart terminal for it to work

[dzeignyc]

ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/ tells me "File exists", however the dotnet command still returns -bash: dotnet: command not found

Restarting the terminal also, does not work

[minvedacat]

ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/
It works for me with latest installer dotnet-sdk-2.0.0-osx-gs-x64.pkg

dotnet --info result:

.NET Command Line Tools (2.0.0)

Product Information:
 Version:            2.0.0
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  cdcd1928c9

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  10.13
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx.10.12-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.0.0/

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

  Version  : 2.0.0
  Build    : e8b8861ac7faf042c87a5c2f9f2d04c98b69f28d

[ze00ro]

close, reopen terminal not work for me, but soft link works
dotnet info shows

.NET Command Line Tools (2.1.4)

Product Information:
 Version:            2.1.4
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  5e8add2190

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  10.13
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx.10.12-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.4/

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

  Version  : 2.0.5
  Build    : 17373eb129b3b05aa18ece963f8795d65ef8ea54

[antstanley]

Hit this same problem. Installed from recommended installer package. Had to follow the steps in the first post on this issue to get it working. CLI version info below

 Product Information:
 Version:            2.1.4
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  5e8add2190

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  10.13
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx.10.12-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.4/

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

  Version  : 2.0.5
  Build    : 17373eb129b3b05aa18ece963f8795d65ef8ea54

[heypaulmcgrath]

Experienced this today on macOS, using the instructions here:
https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/get-started/macos

Resolution was as mentioned above:

ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/

CLI version info:

.NET Command Line Tools (2.1.4)

Product Information:
 Version:            2.1.4
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  5e8add2190

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  10.13
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx.10.12-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.4/

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

  Version  : 2.0.5
  Build    : 17373eb129b3b05aa18ece963f8795d65ef8ea54

[greggman]

Wow, nearly 2 years and this still doesn't work? Why is this closed? Just installed from

https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/get-started/macos

Close terminal and re-opened., dotnet is not in path

[dasMulli]

@greggman did you check any linked issues / comments?
do you use zsh? (oh-my-zsh installer)

[greggman]

Okay, sorry, it's the zsh or rather maybe the oh-my-zsh issue. Sorry I missed that.

[pebreo]

I am using oh-my-zsh and manually symlinking makes it work.

[samyun]

I had the same issue with dotnet-sdk-2.1.300-osx-gs-x64.pkg installing to /usr/local/share/dotnet and not modifying the PATH.

High Sierra 10.13.3, using Bash. Creating the symlink ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/ fixes this issue.

echo $PATH
/Users/samyun/chromedriver:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/samyun/.npm-global/bin

[dlo]

This is still an issue as of 8/6/2018 (dotnet-sdk-2.1.302-osx-gs-x64.pkg).

[davidajacobus]

Adding dotnet to my PATH resolved the issue (High Sierra)
export PATH=/usr/local/share/dotnet:$PATH

[TahmidChowdhury]

New terminal worked for me. TY for this thread.

[contygm]

@djacobus your solution worked for me. Thanks holmes!

[sriram-mv]

Still having to add symlinks.

[kristianjaeger]

For OS X (10.12.6) I had to use @HagamosVideojuegos workaround . This was for the latest installer of https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/8a8072ea-07b3-4e31-8c2b-db56c9dc0b3c/5ef3a090b5e1b7f7c80338249d29f2b3/dotnet-sdk-2.1.403-osx-gs-x64.pkg from https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/dotnet/hello-world-tutorial . So, why was this issue closed? Thanks. #hacktoberfest

[Congee]

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the path_helper introduced in recent macOS. path_helper respects /etc/paths.d/dotnet, in which is the /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet binary
add the following line to your shell profile

eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`

[heaversm]

Wow...surprising that this is still an issue since 2016 (that you have to run ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/).

They should at least add it to the install instructions.

[pcgeek86]

Still an issue in June 2019

[szTheory]

Add export PATH=/usr/local/share/dotnet:$PATH to ~/.zshrc if you're on Zsh or ~/.bash_profile if you're on Bash.

[chinmaykelkar9141]

Uninstalling manually and reinstalling dotnet SDK with homebrew worked for me.
"brew cask install dotnet-sdk-3.1.100"
I am using Catalina.

[timja]

Not sure why this is closed =/, 4 years on it's still an issue (the accepted solution does work).

VS Code instructions tell you to use the installer package and it doesn't setup the path properly for you or symlink it to /bin.

Homebrew is a better option but it's not what the prompt in vs code tells you to do...