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robot command not found if installing robotframework with pip --user flag

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  • Version information
robotframework 3.0
Python 2.7.12
Xubuntu 16.04
pip 8.1.2
  • Steps to reproduce the problem
Make sure robotframework is not installed
install it with pip install robotframework --user
run robot --version
  • Possible error message and traceback.
 /usr/bin/robot: No such file or directory
 bash: robot: command not found...

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:9 (9 by maintainers)

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manycodingcommented, Aug 24, 2016

It goes to $HOME/.local/bin I simply created a soft link with sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/robot /usr/bin/robot

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manycodingcommented, Sep 7, 2016

Finally looked in Xubuntu laptop, ~/.local/bin/ simply was not in PATH. I think it is a pip issue.

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