How to Permanently add Flutter to Path in Mac

Question

I know there are many similar answers to this however I have checked them, watched a video on it and tried countless times. I exported the flutter path to the .bashprofile and it is saved as shown in the screenshot however if I close terminal and try using a flutter command like flutter --version or which flutter or even flutter doctor I get flutter not found or zsh: command not found: flutter

How do I fix this so I can permanently use flutter in any directory or path

Answer 1

Please follow the steps below:

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type: nano ~/.zshrc
3. Type: export PATH=[PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY]/flutter/bin:$PATH

4. Press control+x to Exit
5. Type: source ~/.zshrc
6. Restart the Terminal.
7. Verify by typing flutter --version

Answer 2

Adding FLUTTER PPATH to terminal permanently

Step:1

TYPE: echo $SHELL

• This will tell which SHELL you are using (bash or Z shell)

Step:2


TYPE: $HOME/.bashrc

• If it shows file does not exists, then you need to create new zshrc file

(Only if the above error accours) TYPE: touch ~/.zshrc // this will create a new zshrc file

Step 3:

TYPE: open $HOME/.zshrc //to open the zshrc file

• Add the flutter bin path for setting to the terminal permanently in zshrc file

TYPE: export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/development/flutter/bin"

Step 4:

TYPE: source $HOME/.zshrc //to refresh current terminal window

Now u can run flutter cmds without adding path all times

Answer 3

You're adding the path to .bash_profile but the error says zsh: command not found: flutter.

Look closely at the error, your default shell is zsh and not bash. So adding the path to .bash_profile doesn't help since the path is being looked up for in .zshrc instead.

Here's how you can add the path to .zshrc instead: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11530176/5066615