zsh: command not found laravel

Question

I'm a newbie when it comes to Linux administration using bash... I was following a tutorial on how to install laravel 5.2 from here... installed it successfully...

firstly I installed composer and ran the following command

composer global require "laravel/installer"

after this put this in my path too in ~/.zshrc like this

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

When I run the laravel command from the terminal I get the following error

➜  ~ laravel 
zsh: command not found: laravel

If I echo $PATH it shows it have added up in the path

Note: I have installed oh my zsh on my terminal...

What do I have to do to get it working please help

Grappa

just do composer create-project laravel/laravel ProjectName --prefer-dist – Nagari

Is there something called laravel in ~/.composer/vendor/bin? – Caylacaylor

@Caylacaylor yes there is a file called laravel in ~/.composer/vendor/bin I've checked while i was trying to run the command – Grappa

Then try running it directly: ~/.composer/vendor/bin/laravel and see if that works. If not, make sure it's executable. – Caylacaylor

M1 Mac - the below to my .zshrc done the trick for me. REMEMBER to source ~/.zshrc or quit and reopen your terminal for the setting to take effect. export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" – Porphyritic

Answer 1

I think ZSH won't expand the ~ on PATH. Try this in your .zshrc file instead:

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Irradiation

Only works until I close out of the terminal. any ideas? – Laius

@PeterGMac. What do you mean? We are taking about the .zshrc file which is executed every time you start a new zsh session (i.e. every time you open a terminal). It only works until you close your terminal in the sense it works from when you open your terminal until you close your terminal? – Irradiation

why i have to add this every time i open the terminal? – Aweather

This also solved a problem I had with migrations not working with SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory when using homestead along with mamp pro socket (after setting up unix_socket, right localhost and everything else, also successfully tested connection, still couldn't run migrations) so THANK YOU! – Avid

In my case, I had to use different path: export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" – Sherrill

For me also only export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" works. I'm on ubuntu 19.04 – Beggary

@PeterGMac. You can add that code to ~/.zshrc, restart terminal and it will work (I'm using Iterm2 with Zsh on Mac) – Redress

Answer 2

Try to do this:

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Nub

This worked for me. I'm on Manjaro using ZSH and oh-my-zsh – Cardiogram

This is the right answer for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – Hyponasty

this should be the right answer ! – Photogrammetry

Thank god! after few hours of searching finally found the answer that works for me. – Impend

Working for PopOS linux with Laravel Installer 5.5 – Olshausen

Answer 3

As a follow up to Chris' answer,

The command export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" will work, but only for your current terminal session.

If you would like the path to always be available when zsh launches, add PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" to the bottom of your ~/.zshrc file. Run the zsh command or restart your terminal and laravel will be available in every session you start.

Rehnberg

You need to run: source ~/.zshrc to make it available in the current session also (without restarting terminal). – Alyssaalyssum

Answer 4

On Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 with zsh (Oh My ZSH!) and macOS.

Add Laravel cli with composer :

composer global require laravel/installer

edit : ~/.zshrc

add to file :

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

run:

source ~/.zshrc

Dewayne

but macos has ~/.zprofile File for this – Wellmeaning

Answer 5

I got the same problem on macOS Sierra. Edit your .zshrc file with

PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

That worked for me.

Hortative

Answer 6

My solution was:

echo "PATH=\"$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH\"" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

• Then type laravel

More info here 👌

Cardiomegaly

Answer 7

Make sure that you've PHP and Composer installed on your system:

Open a new terminal shell, navigate to your project's directory and run the following command:

echo -n 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' << ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

If it errors asking for permissions run this:

sudo !!

This will run the previous command with sudo appended to it.

If your machines using: laravel@version{5,6,7}.x, running: shell PHP >= 7.2.5

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel demoblog

Alternatively, these instructions may serve you well.

Porphyritic

Answer 8

When you run command laravel in your terminal, you call the laravel file inside composer/vendor/bin directory.

If none of the above works, then find where your vendor dir is by running:

composer global about

you will see something like: "Changed current directory to /home/username/.config/composer".

That means that your vendor dir is located in that path. Then add an alias in .zshrc file:

alias laravel="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin/laravel".

Now you are pointing to the 'laravel' file in your filesys using the same command as you would normally.

or you can add composer to your path: export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH", which is the recomended way.

Gandzha

Answer 9

For Linux:

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make sure you fully add the path to composer to your system path

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

or better still edit the .zshrc file as below

echo "PATH=\"$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH\"" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

George

Answer 10

Put this to .zshrc file:

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

And make sure you run:

source ~/.zshrc

Nidifugous

Answer 11

Try to do this:

macOS:

$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

Windows:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

GNU / Linux Distributions:

$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin or $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

Reel

Answer 12

for MACOS

type on terminal

composer global require laravel/installer

open ~/.zprofile

add this :- export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Run:- source ~/.zprofile

Wellmeaning

Answer 13

I too was getting the same error while creating a new Laravel project using composer but anything mentioned about the path didn't solved it and a simple trick help to resolve this issue.

Try to run this command on the terminal of your project folder :

composer global require laravel/installer

Article from laracasts helped me: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/laravel-command-not-found-by-zsh-on-macos

Sherly