I just followed the manual installation guide for Linux, it all seems okay on my Pi 3, except the guide said to install to:
/usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin ...  is this normal?

I run get_iplayer inside "screen" sessions on my Pi 3, as it has lots going on; INSIDE the screen it was searching the PATH for /usr/bin and seemingly not looking in /usr/local/bin, but outside my screen session, it worked fine at the installed PATH... weirddd...

I fixed cobbled it by symlinking /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer to /usr/bin/get_iplayer - it now works.

My command was:


For the non-*nixers, what this does is create a "symoblic link" (layman's: a POINTER) to the get_iplayer script, where the OS expects the scipt to be, and when Linux looks for it at /usr/bin it transparently points it to /usr/local/bin - the execution of the script then works, the OS is unaware of the differing locations, in essence.

Im confused, so where should get_iplayer ACTUALLY be? in usr/local/bin or /usr/bin?

Steve

You are likely running /bin/sh in screen (or something else other than your default login shell), with a different default PATH than your login shell. Only you will know how it is set up.

(01-05-2017, 01:39 PM)You are likely running /bin/sh in screen (or something else other than your default login shell), with a different default PATH than your login shell. Only you will know how it is set up.

Nope, just bash - the default for Raspian Jessie:


I was running the latest get_iplayer from your Raspbian Jessie repo until the 3.00.0 was released, installed from the install.sh script - nothing ever threw an error until I purged that (old) one and installed 3.00.0, manually, as per your guide. As you can see from my process listing, no /bin/sh running, and get_iplayer ran fine, both inside/outside a screen, until now. I'm not complaining - my symlink has fixed whatever caused this, but it's just a weird quirk that this suddenly manifested itself where it never has before.

:)

The manual installation instructions tell you to install get_iplayer in /usr/local/bin, and in the default installation of raspbian jessie lite this is in your path.

However, bash remembers where things are - if it's previously found get_iplayer in /usr/bin, and then that disappears, you will find that during that session bash won't find where you've moved get_iplayer to. This will go away when you next log in regardless, but you can make bash forget where things were and search again by using "hash -r".

This might explain why you couldn't find get_iplayer in shells inside screen, but if it doesn't, it's something you've changed from the default installation. On a default installation of jessie lite, with get_iplayer and screen added, shells inside screen have /usr/local/bin in the path. As dinkypumkin said, only you can know what you did.

Cheers
Jon