sudo: port: command not found

Question

I recently uninstalled Xcode 4.2 and re-installed Xcode 4.3.1. Command Line Tools are installed. I then installed MacPort using “dmg” disk images for Lion from macports.org. Since, I was getting sudo: port: command not found after every use of port, I followed this and this post to create a .bash_profile file(wasn't present earlier) and then put in it the following but to no avail.

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info 

Following this post

➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ rvm install 1.8.7 --with-openssl-dir=/opt/local
You requested building with '/usr/bin/gcc-4.2' but it is not in your path.
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ vi .rvmrc 

rvm_archflags="-arch x86_64"

export CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2"

export CFLAGS="-O2 -arch x86_64"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"

Renaming .bash_profile to .profile

➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ vi .bash_profile
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ mv .bash_profile .profile
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ mv .profile              
usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
       mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ mv -f .bash_profile .profile
mv: rename .bash_profile to .profile: No such file or directory
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ port
zsh: correct 'port' to 'pr' [nyae]? n
zsh: command not found: port
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ which port
port not found
➜  ~ git:(master) ✗ 

.profile content:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info

Inlaw

I ran into this error in the command line when installing MongoDB for a Rails app, so I imagine some others may also find this question via Google search with the same keywords. All I did was update XCode and install MacPorts from macports.org, try that before doing anything else on this page. – Crimple

Answer 1

Make sure to delete ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login so that .profile can work. This worked for me http://johnnywey.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/fixing-bash-profile-in-os-x/

Nullity

I restarted my terminal and it's gone again :-/ – Inlaw

what's gone, your .profile? BTW can you still use sudo in the terminal? like sudo ls for example? – Nullity

port. I have to run source .profile every time when I open terminal for it to recognize port. – Inlaw

sounds like you still have .bash_profile or .bash_login superuser.com/questions/366642/profile-not-loaded-osx-lion – Nullity

The link to the solution is not available anymore. – Diaphaneity

Link to the solution is not available any more. This is why the solution should be posted here and not just the link. – Require

Why would you want to delete your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_* for that matter, ever? Especially if you spent a lot of time configuring your bash, all of that configuration will be gone instantly and many tools that you use daily will be gone. – Anteater

This is far to be a solution, first of all, you'll gonna delete all your personal profile bash data, and this is not mean it'll gonna work because the problem is related to paths of the system, the correct solution is provided by @Isis. – Destine

johnnywey.wordpress.com is no longer available. – Mardis

Answer 2

First, you might need to edit your system's PATH

sudo vi /etc/paths

Add 2 following lines:

/opt/local/bin
/opt/local/sbin

Reboot your terminal

Drollery

After lots of .bash_profile investigation, it turned out I just needed to reboot the terminal after installing MacPorts. Thanks for this tip. – Octosyllable

It works for me too! Thank you. This should be the right answer. – Velarde

@Octosyllable just rebooting terminal worked for me. Thank you for help :) – Semanteme

Kindly help me:Bounty: #39288406 – Nich

Adding those two lines and rebooting the terminal was what finally did the trick after messing around with .bash_profile and .profile. All of it fruitless until I added opt/local/bin to etc/paths. – Cologne

You can also add this line to /etc/manpaths: /opt/local/share/man – Schoolmarm

For the record, this worked to solve the same problem on High Sierra as well. – Joinder

This is the real solution, @Inlaw please tag the correct answer. – Destine

It might be a good solution for some cases, but if you do not have sudo access and installed mactools as such, I am afraid another solution would be necessary. – Prattle

Answer 3

I found the answer in the official website

$ vi ~/.profile

# add the following line
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

And now restart the terminal or type source !$ (equivalent to source ~/.profile)

Gunnysack

Thank you! This was the only thing that finally helped me. I actually didn't have a .profile, so I created one and added that line and it worked. – Heap

Answer 4

You could try to source your profile file to update your environment:

$ source ~/.profile

Chemise

How do I do source my profile? How do I run this command, just writing it on terminal gives source: no such file or directory: .profile – Inlaw

move into your user directory with cd $HOME then try it – Chemise

Yes, I am trying from there only. – Inlaw

OP has a .bash_profile, not a .profile. Rename that file to ~/.profile and try again. – Sastruga

I renamed it to .profile. Is it different from ~/.profile? – Inlaw

It's the same ~/ is just the path to the user directory (same as $HOME/ ) – Chemise

Kindly help me:Bounty: #39288406 – Nich

Answer 5

if you use zsh.please add flowing string to the line 'export PATH="..."' in file '~/.zshrc'

:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin

Malinda

You can also set MANPATH with export MANPATH="/opt/local/share/man". If you want to be able to access MacPorts in non-login shells, set these variables in ~/.zshenv. – Schoolmarm

Thanks a lot. I was editing .profile, .bash_profile till now. Finally edited .zshrc and it worked. – Jola

Answer 6

On my machine, port is in /opt/local/bin/port - try typing that into a terminal on its own.

Maiamaiah

In my bin folder, there are only files(port is a file) ➜ bin ls daemondo port portf portindex portmirror – Inlaw

What do you get when you type `set | grep PATH' into a terminal? – Maiamaiah

Binary file (standard input) matches – Inlaw

Sorry, don't know where to go from there. This might help: willbryant.net/software/mac_os_x/paths – Maiamaiah

I do not have a path.d inside etc folder. I only have macports inside it. – Inlaw

there is no /opt folder on my mac Osx 10.8? – Botti

Answer 7

If you have just installed macports just run and it should work

source ~/.bash_profile

Enforcement

Answer 8

What do you get from running which port as your regular user account? Try it from a freshly opened terminal. Try again after renaming .bash_profile to .profile. Can you run port as a regular user, even with no arguments?

Sastruga

Added it above. It is renamed. – Inlaw

Answer 9

You can quite simply add the line:

source ~/.profile

To the bottom of your shell rc file - if you are using bash then it would be your ~/.bash_profile if you are using zsh it would be your ~/.zshrc

Then open a new Terminal window and type ports -v you should see output that looks like the following:

~ [ port -v                                                                                                              ] 12:12 pm
MacPorts 2.1.3
Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
[Users/sh] > quit
Goodbye

Hope that helps.

Eberhardt

Answer 10

there might be the situation your machine is managed by Puppet or so. Then changing root .profile or .bash_rc file does not work at all. Therefore you could add the following to your .profile file. After that you can use "mydo" instead of "sudo". It works perfectly for me.

function mydo() {
    echo Executing sudo with: "$1" "${@:2}"
    sudo $(which $1) "${@:2}"
}

Visit my page: http://www.danielkoitzsch.de/blog/2016/03/16/sudo-returns-xyz-command-not-found/

Jaejaeger

Answer 11

I faced this as an issue with port trees. MacPorts offers a solution here, which worked for me and does not imply changing your environment variables.

Xanthous