nRF Connect Getting Started Assistant installation problem with West

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I'm trying to set up the development environment on Ubuntu 18.04. I got through Step 1. At the beginning of Step 2, I am trying to install West. 
 pip3 install --user west The command appears to work, but when I verify it says: 
 
 /bin/sh: 1: west: not found

17:31:31.812 
 nrf_connect_sdk-0.1.4-0 verification failed 
 
 And in the terminal when I run any West command, I get: 
 
 matt@matt-desktop:~$ west --help Command 'west' not found, did you mean: command 'test' from deb coreutils Try: sudo apt install <deb name> 
 
 Any advice?

golgor · Answer

I also had this issue and by adding the "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" in my .bashrc solved the issue with running it in a terminal. The Getting started assistant still would not verify it though. I noticed that the assistant was trying to find west by absolute path "/bin/west". I tested to add a symlink to the correct installation path as: 
 sudo ln -s $HOME/.local/bin/west /bin/west 
 After running this command the "Getting Started Assistant" verify a correctly installed west.

nRF Connect Getting Started Assistant installation problem with West

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