$PATH updated but commands are not found

[rollschild]

Hi,

I used your flake.nix in my project and nix build succeeded. However, I'm not sure what's the best way to execute those commands such as solana-install-init.

What I did was $ result/bin/solana-install-init stable and it succeeded. The output of this command asked me to update $PATH to include /home/username/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin.

I updated my $PATH but when I started to just call the commands like $ solana-install-init, it gave me command not found errors.

I checked that directory that I put into $PATH. There are a bunch of binaries under /home/username/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin but none of them are actually executable.

~/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin $ ls -l                                                                                                                                                                                
-rwxr-xr-x 1  cargo-build-bpf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  cargo-test-bpf
drwxr-xr-x 2 deps
drwxr-xr-x 5  perf-libs
-rwxr-xr-x 1  rbpf-cli
drwxr-xr-x 3 sdk
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-bench-tps
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-dos
-rwxr-xr-x 1 solana-faucet
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-genesis
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-gossip
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-install
-rwxr-xr-x 1 solana-install-init
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-keygen
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-ledger-tool
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-log-analyzer
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-net-shaper
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-stake-accounts
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-sys-tuner
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-test-validator
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-tokens
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-validator
-rwxr-xr-x 1  solana-watchtower
-rwxr-xr-x 1  spl-token

Do you have any idea on how to fix this? Thanks!

p.s. I also posted a question in discourse.

[cideM]

👋🏻 sorry that this flake is so rough. I don't personally use Solana and created this more out of curiosity. There may be better options at this time.

Anyway, I looked into this very briefly and I think solana-install-init shouldn't even be an output of this flake. From the script:

This is just a little script that can be downloaded from the internet to
install solana-install. It just does platform detection, downloads the installer
and runs it.

Stuff like that almost never works on NixOS. Does this work for you?

$ nix build
$ ./result/bin/solana-install

?

EDIT: I removed solana-install-init from the flake now