pub global activate command - $HOME/.pub-cache/bin not on path

Question

I was trying to install dart2 recently, but when I try to install pub global activate stagehand, it comes with a warning.

Warning: Pub installs executables into $HOME/.pub-cache/bin, which is not on your path.

You can fix that by adding this to your shell's config file (.bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.):

export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

so i went to my .bash_profile file and added the above, and the file looks like this:

export PATH=/users/kevinau/dart/flutter/bin:$PATH
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

but then I run webdev and the command is still not found.

can anyone walk me thru how to fix this?

I tried echo $PATH and return the below:

/users/myspace/dart/flutter/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/sbin/.pub-cache/bin

but how do I fix it?

Catboat

add export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin" in your terminal and execute your android studio termnial too. and restart the terminal. – Foghorn

Answer 1

I have just run the following command in my cmd

export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

then I again run the command dart pub global activate fvm and the error is gone. In my case, I am having the error during installing fvm package.

Vegetation

run on terminal not worked. but run in vscode terminal is worked. – Deflection

This is an easy solution on Mac. Thanks – Millstream

Answer 2

Edit zshrc file using vim on terminal

vim ~/.zshrc

or

vim ~/.bashrc

edit data on zshrc after pressing "i" on keyboard. Export flutter location, aqueduct location and dart sdk location

export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/Development/flutter/bin"
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/Development/flutter/.pub-cache/bin"
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/Development/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin"

After editing press "esc" key ~:wq for saving Check working of aqueduct using

aqueduct --version

or

aqueduct serve

Thad

Answer 3

Add dart-sdk path to .bash_profile

export PATH="$PATH:`pwd`/flutter/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:`pwd`/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:`pwd`/.pub-cache/bin"

Biconvex

Answer 4

If you’re a mac user Just do the following: In any system folder, you can go to home directory via command+shift+h In home directory, you need to edit .bashrc file, but it’s hidden, use command+Shift+. To unhide. Now, you can edit file and add this code to finish line:

export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

Congratulations your problem has been solved 😊

Levine

on my system, the file in home directory i needed to edit was .zshrc thnak you @Mohammad Hassan Farhadi for the directions on how to find it :) – Jennelljenner

I continued to have problems and after editing .zshrc I had to do a re-auth for my login see solution here: #57941789 – Scrunch

Answer 5

For Unix-based system:

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.pub-cache/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Nazareth

Use this after getting melos 'missing HOME path' ( for macOS users too) – Woodpile

Answer 6

For Windows

Add C:\flutter\.pub-cache\bin into your system variable path

Thrilling

There is no bin folder located there – Hoover

Answer 7

System Properties -> Environment variable -> System variable -> Path -> New -> $HOME/.pub-cache/bin

Ablepsia

Answer 8

I was setting my global environment variables after that warning on Window 10 pc but it was still giving me warning that your variable is not set even after I set all variables in environment variable settings

So I Simply restart my windows , it took some time for updating then after my pc starts. I ran this command "dart pub global activate protoc_plugin" and boom waning was gone

Sometimes windows do not get variables when they are set in present boot state so reloading boot (restarting windows) resolves the error

Society

Answer 9

For webdev you need also

pub global activate webdev

Mckean

yes that too, both stagehand and webbed are both currently command not found – Catboat

Do you have the Dart SDK installed? You can't use the Dart SDK included in Flutter for web development. – Wheeler

"and the command is still not found." is also not very helpful. Please add the full and exact error message to your question. – Wheeler

yes I have the Dart SDK installed, but how I do I differentiate Flutter's Dart SDK and Dart for Web SDK?. – Catboat

When I type command webdev, it returns -bash: webdev: command not found – Catboat

Is there a file webdev in $HOME/.pub-cache/bin? Did pub global activate webdev succeed or did it cause an error? – Wheeler

yes there are both webdev and stagehand in $HOME/.pub-cache/bin – Catboat

looks like there is something wrong with $HOME. Your path .../sbin:/sbin/.pub-cache/bin should be /sbin:/users/kevinau/.pub-cache/bin. Also your path starts with /users/myspace/dart/flutter/bin: and as mentioned the flutter SDK doesn't work with web programming. Also in path you have /users/myspace, but in the command in your question you use /users/kevinau/. – Wheeler

Answer 10

after install flutterfire global, my path in windows 10 will be :

C:\Users\Windows\AppData\Local\Pub\Cache\bin

Visit

Answer 11

Its works for me...

export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

Tunnage

Answer 12

Use this for windows to find the path. Paste this in file explorer %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pub\Cache\bin

Dogleg