Mix (elixir) no such file or directory

Question

I am trying to install elixir in ubuntu... I had followed this instructions.

Everthing seems fine, but when I try to execute the mix comand, system asnwered me this:

bash: /usr/bin/mix: No such file or directory

Thanks you.

Is that the exact error message? Can you paste the exact one if it's not? — Dogbert, Sep 28 '16 at 15:45
Hi @Dogbert It says bash, not bahs... and the output is in spanish... But yes It is exactly the error message. — Eloy Fernández Franco, Sep 28 '16 at 15:47
Does it say `/user` or `/usr` ? `/usr` would be the standard place for it to be--`/user` would not be. What happens if you type `/usr/bin/mix`? — Onorio Catenacci, Sep 28 '16 at 18:38
Maybe you forgot to `cd` into directory where `mix.exs` file is available ( `mix` isn't a global command that works everywhere) — Oleksandr Avoiants, Sep 28 '16 at 21:20
OMG!!! I was toooooo tired!!! Thanks @OleksandrAvoyants that is the solution!!! — Eloy Fernández Franco, Sep 28 '16 at 21:24
I don't see how being in a directory without `mix.exs` can cause "/usr/bin/mix: No such file or directory". You can run `mix` from any directory after installing Elixir. If you run it from a directory without `mix.exs`, you'll just get an error like "** (Mix) Could not find a Mix.Project, please ensure a mix.exs file is available". — Dogbert, Sep 29 '16 at 15:02
Yes you are right, yesterday I thought that this is kind of error when people do rails new demo && rails server instead of rails new demo && cd demo && rails server. But now when I read this, seems that it doesn't have sense :) — Oleksandr Avoiants, Sep 29 '16 at 15:18

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '17 at 10:43

Just ran into the same problem. The guide you linked installs mix to /usr/local/bin/mix instead of /usr/local/mix. I created a symlink /usr/bin/mix but expanding $PATH is probably a better way to fix this.

~$ mix
-bash: /usr/bin/mix: No such file or directory
~$ which mix
/usr/local/bin/mix
~$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/mix /usr/bin/mix
~$ mix
** (Mix) Could not find a Mix.Project, please ensure a mix.exs file is available

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '19 at 12:25

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in my case i have installed elixir using sudo so when you try to call it without sudo you'll get this error.

answered May 05 '19 at 12:25

Badr Bellaj

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 23 '17 at 04:17

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Also ran into this. In my case it stemmed from having CDPATH set.

Unsetting it for the session with unset CDPATH and retrying did the trick.

answered Apr 23 '17 at 04:17

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 09 '19 at 15:26

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In my case I reinstalled Erlang via sudo apt-get install erlang-base and during installation, Elixir got removed altogether.

Fixed that by running sudo apt-get install elixir.

All repositories were preset for me already.

answered Oct 09 '19 at 15:26

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Mix (elixir) no such file or directory

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