Powerline: OSX Mavericks: "bash: powerline: command not found"

Created on 24 Oct 2013 · 6Comments · Source: powerline/powerline

I upgraded to Mavericks last night, and the only thing that broke was powerline in bash. So I tried reinstalling it according to the instructions, but have been getting some errors.

It still works in vim, ipython, as expected.

However, bash gives me the error:

bash: powerline: command not found

I'm setting it up as instructed in the documentation by putting the following line into my .bash_profile:

. /Users/USERNAME/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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iamjboyd

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@iamjboyd I had the same issue and the problem is that, as the output says, the powerline command cannot be found.

The powerline command is on the directory /Users/USERNAME/Library/Python/2.7/bin so I've solved it adding the following lines to my .bash_profile:

if [ -d "$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin" ]; then
    PATH="$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin:$PATH"
fi

rafacas on 14 Nov 2013

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I'm seeing a similar instance of this issue:

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf: No such file or directory

Listing all files in the /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages reveals only a README:

$ ls -a /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
.      ..     README

I'm using iterm2/zsh/tmux/vim and do not see powerline being formatted as it was before the upgrade to Mavericks in tmux or vim. I have not tried to reinstall.

jfeaver on 24 Oct 2013

I'm having the same issue.

Powerline not in the site packages - have tried fresh install... no dice.

thewatts on 8 Nov 2013

@iamjboyd I had the same issue and the problem is that, as the output says, the powerline command cannot be found.

The powerline command is on the directory /Users/USERNAME/Library/Python/2.7/bin so I've solved it adding the following lines to my .bash_profile:

if [ -d "$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin" ]; then
    PATH="$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin:$PATH"
fi

rafacas on 14 Nov 2013

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Solved! Thanks rafacas!

iamjboyd on 14 Nov 2013

This should be added to the https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/troubleshooting.html or general setup sections. I hit this problem after an OSX upgrade as well.