Flutter opened and moved to developer folder. I haven't had any luck updating the flutter path in the terniaml. It fails to open flutter
I enter the info posted on the flutter website and replace the path with my info on where the flutter folder is located on my computer. i run, source $HOME/.. Then a error code comes back. If i run,
echo $PATH
then it comes back flutter not detected.
According to the installing Flutter documentation, you should put the downloaded folder in the development folder, not the developer folder. Try moving the downloaded folder to the development folder.
If you are unable to update the path via the terminal. Just do it manually.
Steps to manually update the path:
Since you already know you have a zsh terminal. Go to /Users/[your username]. Unhide the files by hitting [cmd+shift+.].
If you don't have a .zshrc file. Just create a new file. You can download my .zshrc file from here: .zshrc file
open it in TextEdit and write this
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/syedsadiquh/Development/SDKs/flutter/bin"
After the $PATH: just replace it with your own flutter/bin location.
Now close all terminal windows to source the new file automatically.
Now verify your path by running echo $PATH
Now verify that flutter is available by running which flutter.
The official flutter docs to refer (see update your path section): Official flutter docs
Trying to add path to locate flutter so 'flutter doctor' can be run, to solve zsh: command not found: flutter,
then I found that creating below is first step to solution, but again terminal says nano ~/.bash_profile zsh: command not found: nano
then trying to create bash profile also not working, may be it's existing, but somehow it says below.
$HOME/.bash_profile
zsh: permission denied: /Users/prettygirl/.bash_profile
terminal is given full file access in macOS
restarted my macmini
vscode quitted and restarted,
terminal quitted and restarted
problem still persists. Is there any way to add path variables easily than going through all this hassle with terminal? like macos menu or something to add system path variables?
You're trying to open your bash_profile using nano (text editor) which you don't have installed. You can open that file using any text editor you have. Also, I see you're using zsh and not bash, this means that you should actually edit your ~/.zshrc or ~/.zprofile instead and add
PATH=</path/to/flutter>:$PATH
where you replace </path/to/flutter> with the actual path to flutter on your machine. You can do this if you don't want to add it manually:
echo 'export PATH=</path/to/flutter>:$PATH' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc
again, replacing </path/to/flutter> with your actual flutter path.
This is the only thing that worked for me.
Go to where your flutter folder is and right-click, get info, and copy where the path then paste it in the YOUR_PATH part below.
Open the .zshrc file using the command: nano ~/.zshrc,
Now add the following to the file: export PATH="$PATH:/YOUR_PATH/flutter/bin/"
Save the file by pressing Control + X followed by Enter.
Apply the changes by command: source ~/.zshrc
I try to reinstall my flutter folder, I download flutter in there website and replace the old one on the folder, but when I run flutter in terminal I get this error
fee#Mac-mini ~ % flutter
/Users/fee/Documents/flutter/bin/internal/shared.sh: line 228:
/Users/fee/Documents/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: No such file or directory
and I cant run even flutter doctor or flutter clean can some one help me thank you
im using mac
These links will help you -
Video
Official docs - https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos
You have to update your path variable for flutter. At first, you need to know which shell you are using by typing echo $SHELL in your terminal. Depending on your shell, edit .bashrc, .bash_profile or .zshrc by any editor. Then you have to add below code to your shell:
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/fee/Documents/flutter/bin"
Then, type source .bashrc or source .bash_profile which you have updated earlier or logout and login back to take effect your new changes.
Check your update by typing which flutter or flutter doctor in terminal.
Try it like this.
Delete the cache folder under flutter/bin
I have downloaded flutter and completed my setup am sure its good as I have checked it 5 times and put the correct file path export PATH="$PATH:/Users/KingKimani/Developer/flutter/bin". but I can't run flutter doctor or any flutter command why?
I am currently using the MAC M1 chip.
If you are using zsh do the following.
Open .zshrc file nano $HOME/.zshrc
You will see the commented $PATH variable here
# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/...
Remove the comment symbol(#) and append your new path using a separator(:) like this.
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/KingKimani/Developer/flutter/bin:$PATH
Activate the change
source $HOME/.zshrc
You're done !!!
After setting the correct path on the system.
System terminal needs to have latest environment configurations.
Restart/Reload terminal required.
If you are using zsh shell & have save path on .zshrc file.
below command will reload configurations
source ~/.zshrc
Reference
I just tried to execute Flutter: New Project, but it shows an error that could not find a flutter SDK.
I've ensured to complete all of the requirements from the flutter doctor.
Is there any way to solve this problem?
Thanks.
On macOS this was solved by following these steps.
First find where you downloaded the flutter sdk (Can be downloaded from here). It should be in your downloads folder unless you selected somewhere else.
Next:
Open up Terminal. Run the following command: sudo nano /etc/paths
Enter your password, when prompted.
Go to the bottom of the file, and enter the path you wish to add.
Hit control-x to quit.
Enter “Y” to save the modified buffer.
If the sdk is downloaded into your Downloads folder, your path to add should be /Users/yourusername/Downloads/flutter/bin
Lastly, quit and restart your terminal windows and VS Code. After restarting, both apps should recognize flutter and running flutter doctor should now work.
If you installed Flutter extension please restart VS_CODE and try it again. I already had the same problem.
The thing is VSCode looks for .packages file in your Flutter project this file contains path to your Flutter SDK & some other metadata. You're getting this error because either the .packages file is missing or either the path to Flutter SDK in .packages file contains some discrepancies.
To resolve it, you can;
Either edit the .packages file & set the path.
Or if you already have a working Flutter project then a .packages must've been already created. Copy that file & paste it in the root directory of your project.
Restart VSCode & run flutter pub get
This should resolve the issue.
Check your environment variables:
Look for the PATH if it exists append the full path to flutter\bin
using ; as a separator from existing values.
If it does not exist, create a new user variable named PATH with the
full path to flutter\bin as its value.
And check the installation guide
After doing this:
Open VS Code.
Press Ctrl + Shift + P.
Then type flutter and select run flutter doctor it should be fixed now.
Create a new project to make sure it's run.
For Linux Users
For future visitors :)
I had the same problem, in my Terminal flutter doctor or in general flutter was recognized, but VSCode couldn't recognize my SDK location so flutter doctor for instance didn't work.
The first thing to do is to follow the steps in flutter documentation: Flutter Doc
If it didn't work, change the environment variables directly.
sudo nano /etc/environment
Now add the location of the bin folder of your flutter SDK, The folder that you downloaded from here.
For example, you extracted it here: /Home/User/Software
Add /Home/User/Software/flutter/bin to the PATH variable. Paths are separated by a colon(:)
After a few solutions I tried, this one worked.
For Windows
Open Visual Studio Code
Click Locate SDK
Find your flutter folder
Click Save
Re-open your Visual Studio Code
Press Ctrl + Shift + P
Type flutter and choose Flutter: New Application Project
Type your project name (e.g: flutter_application_1)
Select a folder to create the project in
If you want to change your flutter sdk location
Go to Visual Studio Code > Manage > Setting (or with shortcut Ctrl
Search dart
Find [dart] configure setting to be overriden for [dart] language
Click Edit in settings.json
You'll see :
{
"dart.sdkPath": "C:\\tools\\dart-sdk",
"dart.flutterSdkPath": "C:\\tools\\flutter",
"[dart]": {
"editor.tabSize": 2,
"editor.insertSpaces": true,
"editor.detectIndentation": false,
"editor.suggest.insertMode": "replace"
}
}
Replace dart.sdkPath and dart.flutterSdkPath with your new sdk location
Installing Flutter on Linux is a breeze using snapd as is documented officially. But then trying to create a Flutter project by following the official steps as mentioned here - Test drive - Flutter will throw an error similar to the description provided in the question.
On a side note though, you don't have to bother adding Flutter to PATH if it was installed using snapd.
Rather, follow these steps:
flutter create <insert_app_folder_name>
cd <insert_app_folder_name>
code .
What it really does is:
The Flutter binary is called from within snapd & creates a project with a directory name you provide.
You can now cd into that specific directory.
Call VSCode in the current directory which opens a VSCode instance within the project directory.
Refer to the answer by #maheshmnj about the .package. This file was created by Flutter earlier if you followed the aforementioned steps.
This means the Flutter extension couldn't find the Flutter SDK automatically (eg. by looking in your PATH or a path configured with dart.flutterSdkPath). Clicking Locate SDK should let you browse to the SDK manually and record that location for the next time. If you see this again after restarting, that's definitely a bug in the Dart/Flutter extension, so please open an issue at https://github.com/Dart-Code/Dart-Code and include the output from clicking the Show Log button, as well as noting whether there's a dart.flutterSdkPath setting in your VS Code User Settings.
If you have just installed the flutter extension, close all the vs code applications running and restart the vs code then it will work as expected.
In order to run a new flutter project,
Go to vs code-> View tab -> command pallette -> select Flutter ->
give a name to the project ->give the path of the project
Now you are good to go with flutter.
I would like to complete NoobN3rd information.
In VSCode Linux I used this steps:
sudo nano /etc/environment
Type your password
I added 3 paths at the end of line:
3.1 /"flutter instalation directory"/flutter/bin
3.2 /"flutter instalation directory"/flutter/packages
3.3 /"flutter instalation directory"/flutter/dev
Save it and reboot your system
Look at my environment file to have an example:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/paulo/development/flutter/bin:/home/paulo/development/flutter/packages:/home/paulo/development/flutter/dev"
if youknow where have you extracted your zip file of dart(Eg. at the time of extraction i setup the path C:\src\flutter)
then in vs code goto
c drive
-src
-flutter
-bin
-cache
-(dart-sdk)
select this folder and your
vs code will be adjusted.
I was facing the same problem. I've initially followed all the steps provided by installation guide of Flutter and was able to run an existing project using flutter run command.
So I've tried again repeating the very same steps of the installation guide and changed the path that I initially set like:
export PATH="$PATH:~/path/to/flutter/bin"
For one like:
export PATH="$PATH:/home/user/path/to/flutter/bin"
Then I run source ~/.bashrc and restarted Visual Code and worked! so I suppose that it was something related to ~ in the path.
I would like to add a complementary and alternative response to the Linux solutions given by NoobN3rd, Traufvihal and Paulo Ravaiano.
I'm using Manjaro and for some reason my Visual Studio Code was not picking up all the environment variables definition. I tried all the solutions and finally I realised the problem was not with the variables definition (my final solution contains them all in ~/.bashrc but it should work with /etc/environment as well) but on how Visual Studio Code was launched.
In case someone else is facing this problem, I noticed that running VS Code from the applications menu fails to link the environment variables for some reason. On the other hand, launching "code-oss" from the terminal does the trick and picks all my variables defined in my ~/.bashrc file.
Hope it helps!
I just got out of the same trouble, after numerous hit and trials trying to run flutter commands from vs code terminal the below set of steps got the things up for me.
In Ubuntu 18.04
Grab the path of the directory where flutter was unpacked by you.Mine was in the Home directory for the root user. Location can be any of your choice.
Go to the Home for your root user
Un-hide all of the hidden files in this directory.
Look for .bashrc file. Do not look for .profile file.
Open .bashrc file using nano/vim/text editor which ever you like.
Scroll to the bottom of the file and add this line -
export PATH="$PATH:pwd/flutter_linux/flutter/bin"
Quit all instances of the vscode (if any) opened.
Re-open and in the terminal type which flutter
Here -
I had re-named the un-zipped folder name like "flutter_linux_v1.12.13+hotfix.9-stable" with "flutter_linux"
Hope this helps......
i was also facing this error, after putting the flutter sdk path at the End of the PATH variable(not in middle or start) it works fine for me
For those who want to change their Flutter SDK path for the Dart & Flutter plugin
Click on Manage Icon(on Mac)
Click on Settings
On the Settings page, Click on Dart & Flutter.
Look for Dart: Sdk Path, click on Edit in settings.json
Edit dart.flutterSdkPath to your VSCode Flutter path
For me non of the answers helped.
What helped was (on macOS) opening the .bash_profile file via
sudo nano .bash_profile
and change the path to where my Flutter was as this has changed. Or add this line export PATH="$PATH:/home/user/path/to/flutter/bin"
hope this helpes.
QUICK SOLUTION!: If on macOS, PLUS everything had been working flawlessly previously, and this happens all of a sudden, or periodically, here is what I eventually discovered...
If your mac restarted, either on its own due to a crash, freeze or overnight install of updates, and VS Code was running, it generally restores all your vscode instances, but with various environment-related errors such as this one. The reason is that you are not running in the context of a shell and you don't have access to those environment settings. See this article from the VS Code documentation.
THE SOLUTION?: Quit and restart VS code as you normally would. Others have mentioned this, but I thought it would be good to know why this happens so you aren't surprised next time.
Please refer to the Get Flutter SDK section and locate where you have installed your flutter\bin folder. In my case, I put the flutter bin in my Documents folder.
See the following image Flutter\bin location
Windows
After make sure right Flutter version is in your path: https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/windows
and you can run flutter doctor successfully
in VS Code you need to go to File->Preferences->Settings (or Ctrl+,)
then search for dart.flutterSdkPath then click on "Edit in settings.json" make sure it is the right path there.
I had the same problem, the solution was:
take the folder where you have extracted your zip file (for example: C:\src\flutter\flutter) then put it in the environment variable path and restart vscode.