Dotbot bin script cannot find python

I get the following output when I run ./install

error: cannot find python
/Volumes/Code/Developer/github/dotfiles/dotbot/bin/dotbot: line 14: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script
/Volumes/Code/Developer/github/dotfiles/dotbot/bin/dotbot: line 44: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/Volumes/Code/Developer/github/dotfiles/dotbot/bin/dotbot: line 46: syntax error: unexpected end of file

However, I have both python3 and python2 installed.

❯ which python3
/usr/local/bin/python3

❯ which python2
/usr/local/bin/python2

❯ which python
/usr/local/bin/python

[micarlise]

the dotbot install script is invoked using /usr/bin/env sh. Because bash is being invoked as sh it starts up in backwards compatible mode; therefore won’t source the usual system-wide startup files (and the env program strips out any of your exported variables). My guess is that /usr/local/bin is not in your $PATH var in the sh startup.

A quick test would be to run:

/usr/bin/env sh
echo $PATH

and check if /usr/local/bin is echoed to the terminal.

A more thorough examination would be to look at the contents of /etc/profile and ~/.profile as those are the two startup files in sh mode that get sourced by bash (in that order). On most gnu linux systems /etc/profile sources the contents of the files in /etc/profile.d/*. However, os x is a bit different. And it looks like you use zsh - so I’m also guessing that you don’t have a ~/.profile file.

[anishathalye]

Hm, this is quite hard to debug without additional information. I think nobody else has been able to reproduce this bug.

I’m going to close this issue for now. Let us know if you have any additional information or a way we might be able to reproduce your bug, and if so, please reopen this issue.