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Pyinstaller doesn't work on Linux

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mamiemando Posted messages 33228 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   -
Good evening,
Look at what gets displayed when I try to install pyinstaller: 

salim@helium:~$ pip3 install pyinstaller
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: pyinstaller in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (5.0.dev0)
Requirement already satisfied: altgraph in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from pyinstaller) (0.17.2)
Requirement already satisfied: importlib-metadata; python_version < "3.8" in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from pyinstaller) (4.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pyinstaller) (40.8.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyinstaller-hooks-contrib>=2020.6 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from pyinstaller) (2022.0)
Requirement already satisfied: zipp>=0.5 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from importlib-metadata; python_version < "3.8"->pyinstaller) (3.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=3.6.4; python_version < "3.8" in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from importlib-metadata; python_version < "3.8"->pyinstaller) (4.0.0)
salim@helium:~$ pyinstaller brouillon2.py
bash: pyinstaller: command not found

Do you have a solution?

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    mamiemando Posted messages 33228 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   7 944
     
    Hello,

    To find a command, your shell searches in order the directories referenced in the environment variable 
    PATH
    which you can display with the command: 

    echo $PATH


    Example : 

    (mando@silk) (~) $ echo $PATH
    /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games


    All these directories require administrative privileges (for obvious security reasons) to add other executables. Since you run 
    pip3
    without 
    sudo
    , 
    pip3
    does not have the rights to install 
    pyinstaller
    in 
    /usr/local/bin
    (which would be the directory where the executable would be installed if you used 
    sudo pip3 install pyinstaller
    ). It probably deploys it in something like 
    ~/.local/bin
    where 
    ~
    represents your home directory (e.g. 
    /home/toto
    ). If this directory is not in your 
    PATH
    , your shell cannot find this executable because it will not look in that directory.

    Solution 1: install pyinstaller as root 

    sudo pip3 install pyinstaller which pyinstaller


    Here is what it looks like on my end: 

    (mando@silk) (~) $ which pyinstaller 
    /usr/local/bin/pyinstaller


    Solution 2: add ~/.local/bin to your PATH 

    PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin which pyinstaller


    You can add at the end of the 
    ~/.bashrc
    file the directive to automatically correct your 
    PATH
    the next time you launch a shell: 

    export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin


    Good luck!
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