[RuntimeError] Poetry was not installed with the recommended installer. Cannot update automatically.

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

• OS version and name: macOS 10.15.6
• Poetry version: 1.0.10
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: Not Applicable

Issue

I installed Poetry using curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python. It installed okay, and every operation is working well. However, poetry self update raises the exception [RuntimeError] Poetry was not installed with the recommended installer. Cannot update automatically. Below is the full traceback (obtained from running it with -vvv:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".../lib/python3.8/site-packages/clikit/console_application.py", line 131, in run
    status_code = command.handle(parsed_args, io)
  File ".../lib/python3.8/site-packages/clikit/api/command/command.py", line 120, in handle
    status_code = self._do_handle(args, io)
  File ".../lib/python3.8/site-packages/clikit/api/command/command.py", line 171, in _do_handle
    return getattr(handler, handler_method)(args, io, self)
  File ".../lib/python3.8/site-packages/cleo/commands/command.py", line 92, in wrap_handle
    return self.handle()
  File ".../lib/python3.8/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/self/update.py", line 90, in handle
    self._check_recommended_installation()
  File ".../lib/python3.8/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/self/update.py", line 252, in _check_recommended_installation
    raise RuntimeError(

[ahogen]

I’m on Windows 10 but was seeing this same error after installing with the recommended (Powershell) method, to the default location.

I uninstalled using python ./get-poetry.py --uninstall

Then set the POETRY_HOME environment variable (via the Windows env var editor).

Lastly re-installed using the same script.

poetry self update seems to work now, with the POETRY_HOME env var set.

[mfoglio]

I got just one installed: ❯ which -a poetry /usr/local/bin/poetry Still run poetry update self: ❯ poetry self update

RuntimeError

Poetry was not installed with the recommended installer. Cannot update automatically.

  at /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.4/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/self/update.py:248 in _check_recommended_installation
      244│         current = Path(__file__)
      245│         try:
      246│             current.relative_to(self.home)
      247│         except ValueError:
    → 248│             raise RuntimeError(
      249│                 "Poetry was not installed with the recommended installer. "
      250│                 "Cannot update automatically."
      251│             )
      252│ 

Also, note I used curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python.

Running on macOS.

Uninstall and reinstalling with the command above works well. But still cannot update poetry (same error).