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M1 Apple Monterey: Dotnet tool not found in zsh shell

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

Installing VS x64 on M1 Apple silicon macOS Monterey and launching a global tool does not work out of the box.

To Reproduce

Install visualstudioformacinstaller-8.10.13.2.dmg (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/) on a M1 with macOS 12.0.1
Open a new Zsh shell and verify that the dotnet tools is in the $PATH

❯ tr ':' '\n' <<< "$PATH" | grep dotnet
/usr/local/share/dotnet
~/.dotnet/tools

Install any dotnet global tool

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-format

Try to run the globally installed tool

Exceptions (if any)

❯ dotnet-format
zsh: command not found: dotnet-format

Further technical details

Include the output of dotnet --info

❯ dotnet --info
.NET SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   5.0.402
 Commit:    e9d3381880

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  12.0
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/5.0.402/

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 5.0.11
  Commit:  f431858f8b

.NET SDKs installed:
  3.1.414 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
  5.0.402 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.20 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.20 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

The IDE (VS / VS Code/ VS4Mac) you’re running on, and its version

Visual studio 2019
visualstudioformacinstaller-8.10.13.2

Zsh version

❯ zsh --version
zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin21.0)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

cicoriascommented, Jan 8, 2023

This occurs on Mac arm too (M1/m2) Apple Silicon and with 7.x of the dotnet sdk. Really need to address this as it causes such problems for folks that are putting dotnet on their Macs.

1reaction

jrdoddscommented, Dec 23, 2021

@sshquack changing the content of the /etc/paths.d/dotnet-cli-tools file from ~/.dotnet/tools to $HOME/.dotnet/tools will not resolve the issue. The paths in the files in /etc/paths.d must be literal paths.