7

I have been trying to get nasm to work as a command in terminal, but nothing seems to be working. I just keep getting the error: 

nasm: error: unable to find utility "nasm", not a developer tool or in PATH

So, first, I tried updating my PATH variable. I tried editing the PATH variable: 

safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:Library safecracker$ export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Libraries/nasm-2.14/
safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:Library safecracker$ nasm
nasm: error: unable to find utility "nasm", not a developer tool or in PATH
safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:Library safecracker$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Libraries/nasm-2.14/
safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:Library safecracker$ cd /Library/Libraries/nasm-2.14/
safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:nasm-2.14 safecracker$ ls
LICENSE     man1        ndisasm     rdf2ihx     rdfdump
README      nasm        rdf2bin     rdf2ith     rdflib
ldrdf       nasmdoc.pdf rdf2com     rdf2srec    rdx

I got the same error. Next, I tried installing nasm with homebrew:

safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:~ safecracker$ brew reinstall nasm
==> Reinstalling nasm 
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/nasm-2.14.02.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/safecracker/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/8581149c56e4f6aa40f6c17f75921aeec141f01373082bda3c7c8afa5cf5fbd5--nasm-2.14.02.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring nasm-2.14.02.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
  /usr/local/Cellar/nasm/2.14.02: 30 files, 2.7MB
safecrackers-MacBook-Pro-2:~ safecracker$ nasm
nasm: error: unable to find utility "nasm", not a developer tool or in PATH

Again, I got the same error. I would love to finally figure this out.

Dinosaur212
  • 123
  • 2
  • 9

3 Answers3

7

To avoid /usr/bin/nasm be found first in PATH use

$ /usr/local/bin/nasm

to find the one installed by brew, or

alias nasm=/usr/local/bin/nasm

and then

$ nasm
Diego Torres Milano
  • 65,697
  • 9
  • 111
  • 134
5

I have solved this problem by:

brew reinstall nasm
Marvin
  • 51
  • 1
  • 1
1

I solved the issue with

sudo chown -R "your_username_folder" /usr/local/share/man/man8

On terminal

My brew was not configured properly, after this command and 

brew install nasm

My NASM command is working properly

Done on MacOS Mojave Beta 4

Kohls
  • 820
  • 7
  • 19