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I am trying to flash my google coral dev board on the macos. I learned that Catalina wouldn't function for using the board, so I downgraded to Mojave. Everything goes smoothly, except when I type the command 

bash flash.sh

Onto my terminal in the process of flashing my board. The terminal returns the command:

Couldn't find fastboot on your PATH -- did you install it?

I am sure I installed it. When I type fastboot devices or version on my terminal, it shows up correctly. And, when I echo path, this comes up

/Users/name/Downloads/fastboot:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

So I am sure that it is on my path also. Does anyone know the solution to this?

Captain Awesome
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Try opening a new terminal and see if it is still in your path. If it is not in your path you can add it to ~/.bash_profile

sudo vim ~/.bash_profile

Add the line:

export PATH=${PATH}:~/.local/bin

Then when you open a new terminal it will still be in $PATH and bash flash.sh should work

Maux
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I faced the very same issue as you, and the way I could run flash.sh to "flash" my Coral dev was by modifying the file (flash.sh) and added the path where fastboot was located.

(I'm a Mac user) This is how I did it:

I went to check the version of fastboot (It also gives you where is the file located at)

cd ~/.local/bin

then:

./fastboot --version

Command results:

fastboot version 30.0.4-6686687

Installed as /Users/jegamboafuentes/.local/bin/./fastboot.

Then I went to the flash.sh file, open it and modify the line 19:

FASTBOOT_CMD="$(which fastboot)"

for:

FASTBOOT_CMD="/Users/jegamboafuentes/.local/bin/./fastboot"

I re-run, and BOOM! it worked, my Coral Dev Board was flashed.

Dharman
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Jorge Enrique Gamboa Fuentes
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Check your model number using the reference here. If it was manufactured before April 10, 2019, then there are some steps for you to follow.

Similarly, make sure you download the latest fastboot version here. Fastboot should be version 28.0.2 or higher. Hope this helps.

N.E.
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