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Tell the user to rename and make executable the binary they download in the README #248

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life5ign opened this issue Oct 26, 2022 · 2 comments

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@life5ign
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Simply "moving the downloaded binary" to your PATH doesn't work.

Provide example commands:

wget <binary_release_url>
mv <downloaded_binary> <somewhere_in_your_path>
chmod u+x <new_path_to_binary>

This would save new folks a lot of trouble.

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@icarlosmendez
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icarlosmendez commented Oct 5, 2023

The recommendation by life5ign seems still not to have been implemented after nearly a year. We're talking about adding a few lines of text to a file that would have potentially saved me tens of hours of head-banging troubleshooting.

I was getting an error declaring "the executable not being in my $PATH", when actually the file was there, and it was in my $PATH. It just wasn't executable due to a permissions misconfiguration. 644 vs 744 = huge waste of time!

Please update your README for the love of God... and aspiring computer geeks everywhere. Well, I know a lot more about $PATHs now. So, thanks. I guess?

Here is the update for the README:

4 - Change the permissions to make the file executable.

$ chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-osxkeychain

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