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Error: spawn flake8 ENOENT

See original GitHub issue

Error: spawn flake8 ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:890:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:182:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:348:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

Just updated to 1.9.6 on atom and now get these pop ups consistently.
Checked flake8 runs, updated, etc…

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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Tomatoespcommented, Nov 8, 2016

pip3 install flake8

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Arcanemaguscommented, Oct 12, 2016

@veehz you need to ensure that flake8 is available in your $PATH. You can force it to work by putting the output of which flake8 (*NIX) or where.exe flake8 (Windows) in the “Executable Path” setting.

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