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Brent Vanwildemeersch
Brent Vanwildemeersch

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Bun command not found on Linux

#javascript #bunjs #bundler

After a clean install of bun on Linux, the bun command will not be recognised by the commandline, because bun was not automatically added to PATH

It will probably return a message as following,

bun --version

Command 'bun' not found, did you mean:

  command 'ben' from deb ben (0.9.0ubuntu2)
  command 'bus' from deb atm-tools (1:2.5.1-4)
  command 'zun' from deb python3-zunclient (4.0.0-0ubuntu1)

Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
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You can solve this with the following actions :

1. Edit the .bashrc file 

nano nano ~/.bashrc
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2. Add the following lines at the end of your .bashrc file 

BUN_INSTALL="/home/{USERNAME}/.bun"
PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
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with {USERNAME} replaced by your username.

3. Close your terminal and open a new shell 

bun --version
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should now return information on the installed version of bun

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