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minikube start - Suggestion for enhancing documentation #18921

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patelsun9066 opened this issue May 18, 2024 · 1 comment
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minikube start - Suggestion for enhancing documentation #18921

patelsun9066 opened this issue May 18, 2024 · 1 comment

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What Happened?

When following the minikube start tutorial on a windows PC, step 1: installation, which has two distinct sub-steps within, can be enhanced to avoid setup confusion amongst first-time MiniKube users. Sub-Step 1 directs users to install MiniKube for their respective operating system and architecture, as well as allowing users to choice their desired release type and installer type (either .exe or using windows powershell). For most users this first sub-step seems to pretty straightforward, however it is when users are directed to perform sub-step 2, which states to "add the minikube.exe binary to your PATH" using windows PowerShell as administrator using a provided command, that confusion arises. For some users, such as myself, the following command provided does not work in PowerShell even as administer. Instead an alternative solution, researched laboriously from the internet, had to utilized to "manually" add the minikube.exe binary to PATH as directed in the tutorial. As a result, in my opinion the tutorial should make a quick mention of this alternative to help avoid confusion/set-up pain points among new users.

Alternative Solution to "Add the minikube.exe binary to your PATH." below:

Add Minikube to the PATH environment variable: To make it easier to use Minikube, add it to your PATH environment variable. To do this, follow these steps:

Right-click on the Start menu and select “System”
Click on “Advanced system settings”
Click on the “Environment Variables” button
Under “System Variables”, scroll down and find the “Path” variable
Click on “Edit”
Click on “New” and add the location of the Minikube executable file (e.g., C:\Program Files\Minikube)
Click “OK” to close all windows.

Verify Minikube Installation: Open the Command Prompt and type minikube version. This should display the version of Minikube that you have installed.

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Windows 10 Pro

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Docker

patelsun9066 added a commit to patelsun9066/minikube that referenced this issue May 18, 2024
Alternative Solution to "Add the minikube.exe binary to your PATH." - to address issue kubernetes#18921
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created a pull request to add this to official documentation.

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