alt Hacker NewsHow are you installing it? Normally package managers will symlink it into a system defined $PATH directory so you shouldn’t need to faff with $PATH yourself.
Not all applications executable match the application name (eg Visual Studio Code is just “code”). So could that have been the issue?
Depends on the software. Generally, whatever the official installation instructions are.
> So could that have been the issue?
No. Adding things to the path is a reasonably common operation on all OSes and CLI-based software. Sometimes the installer will handle it for you; sometimes it won't. (This may be out of date, but I believe the Rust install script is an example of one that sets it up; Go is one that doesn't, and its official instructions CAO 6 months ago were to use Export, which doesn't work once you reboot)