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ElToro1966
Asked: 2018-08-01 01:32:52 +0800 CST

App installed in directory on the PATH, but not found. Weird /snap/bin - error message

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I have the app minikube in /usr/local/bin/minikube. When I do minikube version with the whole path, I get:

$ /usr/local/bin/minikube version
minikube version: v0.28.2

When I do minikube version without the path, I get:

$ minikube version
bash: /snap/bin/minikube: No such file or directory

The /usr/local/bin is included in PATH:

$ echo $PATH
//usr/local/bin:/home/eric/.local/bin:/home/eric/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

Why isn't minikube found without the full path, and what does /snap/bin have to do with anything? Any help much appreciated!

Added info as per comment below from @mpr: Some time ago, I installed minikube with snap like this:

sudo snap install minikube

It was later removed with 

sudo snap remove minikube

Much later, having forgotten about the snap install, I installed it from the minikube site with curl:

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.28.2/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/
command-line bash paths snap 18.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just figured it out: There was a minikube directory under ~/snap, probably left over from a previous install. Fixed the problem doing:

    $ rm -rf ~/snap/minikube

    This snap-business is a bit annoying...

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  2. Starting some experimentation with Kubernetes on a newly installed Ubuntu 18.04 system I also initially used snap to install minikube, encountered errors, and then decided to remove the snap. 

    sudo snap install minikube
sudo snap remove minikube

    I installed minikube a second time with curl. 

    curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.28.2/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/

    I also encountered this error :

    /snap/bin/minikube: No such file or directory

    This was all performed in a single terminal window.

    I did not discover any residual snap files in any of the locations mentioned in the comments above. The error went away when I killed and started a new terminal window.

    The error is NOT reproducable now that I have successfully installed and run minikube on this system.

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