[Bug]: Cannot install Heimdall

[Genysys]

Component

Installing heimdall

Version

N/A

Please check the following

• This is not a duplicate issue
• I have checked the wiki and tried troubleshooting the issue

Operating System

macOS (Intel)

Describe the issue you are facing

After downloading bifrost ,

solidity $curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jon-Becker/heimdall-rs/main/bifrost/install | bash
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1115  100  1115    0     0   3323      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3550
######################################################################## 100.0%

bifrost: Installation complete.
Open a new terminal and run 'bifrost' to install Heimdall.

I open a new terminal to install heimdall. unfortunately , it can't find the binary

solidity $bifrost
bash: bifrost: command not found

[Jon-Becker]

What does ls ~/.bifrost output?

Does ~/.bifrost/bin/bifrost exist?

[Genysys]

solidity $ls ~/.bifrost
bin
solidity $ls ~/.bifrost/bin/
bifrost

I think its because although im using an m1, I still use bash , so i use a bash_profile file and not bash_rc

[Jon-Becker]

I'm also on an m1 :)

You just need to add ~/.bifrost/bin/bifrost to your path. Ill look into why the installer didn't

[Genysys]

This is why it didnt work on the installer ,

https://github.com/Jon-Becker/heimdall-rs/blob/main/bifrost/install#L19-L20

[Jon-Becker]

The entire bin directory to path **

[Jon-Becker]

Ah I see, do I have the wrong profiles?

[Genysys]

I think it depends on the users; carrying on from pre m1 days , I believe most mac users used bash_profile. bash_rc was more linux IIRC

[Jon-Becker]

gotcha. I'll make the installation script install to both bash_profile and bash_rc if it detects bash as the current shell.

[0xharold]

Hi @Jon-Becker,
fyi I faced the same problem with as @Genysys had before (just needed to add ~/.bifrost/bin/bifrost to my path).
I am on WIN11, WSL2, Ubuntu 20.4.