Problems to install it on MacOs

Help
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hello everybody,

im working on several days using all my skills to get beets run on MacOS, but either im too stupid, or there is something wrong. i really would appreciate it if someone could help me out… yes, i did read all instructions, getting started’s, faq’s, googled all i didnt know but so far, so:

python is installed, comes with MacOS:
MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ python --version
Python 2.7.10
this should be fine, cause docs says ‘You will need Python. Beets works on Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 or later.’

pip is installed:
MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)
no idea how i get this to work, but seams it is working

i installed as on getting started:
MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ pip install --user beets
Requirement already satisfied: beets in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.9 in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: mutagen>=1.33 in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: munkres in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: unidecode in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: musicbrainzngs>=0.4 in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: pyyaml in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: jellyfish in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
Requirement already satisfied: enum34>=1.0.4 in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (from beets)
says me that i installed it already. no sudo need, no sip or permission errors.

an this is $PATH:
MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin
as it was, no changes here. i didnt have permission errors on apples sip, so no need to add ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin to it.

and all i get is:
MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ beets
-bash: beets: command not found
MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ beet
-bash: beet: command not found

i also try to locate or find the command ‘beet’, but wasnt successful.

so, u may guess the question now… what the heck i do wrong?

system used:
Systemversion: macOS 10.12.3 (16D32)
Kernel-Version: Darwin 16.4.0

tnk u!

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Hi! Because you used the --user option to install, you will indeed need to add that user-specific bin directory to your path.

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hello adrian,

thank you for supporting me. i got the idea what u mean basically, but i installed it with option --user and (as i tried to get it work) also without --user. after understanding it, my next problem is to find out what user specific bin directory i need to add. theres a lots of ‘bin’ on the drive… some unter ~/LibraryPython/2.7 and do i have to add the path to python, to python/2.7/ oder is there dir for beets itself…? still dont get it. would u pls gimme a hint, or better and if possible can u give me the right dir to add to $PATH? im really horny to try out beets and hardly cant wait to get it run.

chris

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You need to find the path where beet lives. It’s probably ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin, but you can use ls ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin to check.

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It works!! Great!! Tnk u soooo much! cant wait to play around with it. adrian = my superhero of the day!

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Rather then creating a new topic I’d like to continue on this.

So I did all of the above. When I do an echo $PATH i see ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin added. This path does include beet as I see it when I do a “sudo ls ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin”.

When I enter “beet” or “beets” in terminal I get -bash: beet: command not found

My OS is High Sierra. Any help would be appreciated

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Think I figured out my issue; my Python folder is not accessible. If i use sudo beets it works… Mac:/. Fixed: