Flask terminal command not found

Question

I found this Stack Overflow question explaining that Flask 0.10 does not have the flask command. How should I initialize the database for Flask-Migrate?

I discovered this issue when following the documentation for Flask-Migrate. After installing the package and adding the configuration, the init db would not run.

(env) $ flask init db
-bash: flask: command not found

I guess because I'm working on a 3+ year old project. I've upgraded to 0.11. `flask run` cannot locate the Flask app, even though running `ENV` shows `FLASK_APP=run.py`. — rosendin, Nov 15 '16 at 20:58
Yes, that's what I meant. And true, thank you for your help with the initial problem. — rosendin, Nov 15 '16 at 21:23

davidism · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-15T21:07:40.843

Upgrade to Flask 0.11, which provides the flask command.

If you can't upgrade, install and configure Flask-CLI, which backports the command to 0.10.

from flask_migrate import migrate

migrate = Migrate(app, db)

FLASK_APP=my_app.py flask db init

If you can't upgrade and don't want to install Flask-CLI, install and configure Flask-Script, which is a previous system for adding commands and is still supported by Flask-Migrate.

from flask_migrate import Migrate, MigrateCommand
from flask_script import Manager

migrate = Migrate(app, db)

manager = Manager(app)
manager.add_command('db', MigrateCommand)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    manager.run()

python manage.py db init

Flask terminal command not found

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