interpreter command not found or unrecognized

[jordanbtucker]

If you see an error similar to the following.

interpreter command not found

or

interpreter : The term 'interpreter' is not recognized as the
name of acmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

This is likely an issue with your Python/pip Scripts directory not being in your PATH environment variable.

To find out what that path is, run the following command.

python -c 'import os,sysconfig;print(sysconfig.get_path("scripts"))'

(If that doesn't work, see my comment below: #169 (comment))

Now add that directory to your PATH environment variable and restart your terminal.

If you still run into problems, leave a comment here or ask on the Discord server.

[veonua]

on my system

print(sysconfig.get_path("scripts"))
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1520.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Scripts
is missing and protected root folder

the right path is

python -m site --user-site
C:\Users{user}\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\Scripts

[pyoneerC]

PATH or path? Only got the latter

[milgodlewski]

In my case, I had the correct path to "/scripts" in PATH during the installation process.
Important to mention - I initially started the installation on Python 3.11.0

The installation was successfully completed on Python version 3.11.4

[ys112]

Hi, for anyone else that might face same issues where interpreter still fails to work after adding "C:\Python311\Scripts" to PATH in windows.
Turns out that pip install open-interpreter have to run in elevated command in windows if not the error below will appear on first install (which disappears on subsequent same pip install commands)

WARNING: Failed to write executable - trying to use .deleteme logic
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'C:\Python311\Scripts\interpreter.exe' -> 'C:\Python311\Scripts\interpreter.exe.deleteme'

which indicates that interpreter.exe is not installed in the python scripts folder hence interpreter command won't work.

Solution:
Open command prompt with admin rights
If you ran pip install open-interpreter previously,
run pip uninstall open-interpreter first.
Then pip install open-interpreter to install again and no error should show up.
Run interpreter and voila

[pdwytr]

You'll 3.11 version for this to work, thats what helped me out. @jordanbtucker.

[pyoneerC]

have 3.11.5 still dont work

[hamoudydev]

I've had this issue since yesterday and none of the fixes provided worked for me. When running interpreter it would give me the error that it could not open the file and it showed the directory with \\ and not \.

My fix was to manually go to the directory of where interpreter.exe is located and running it manually from there and that seems to work.