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authorGravatar neon4272 <50256318+neon4272@users.noreply.github.com>2020-06-11 08:46:13 +1000
committerGravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-06-10 23:46:13 +0100
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Fix Ubuntu/Debian setup when $PATH contains spaces (#9307)
* Change `echo` to `export` * Add `export` as a note under the `echo` command * Remove note from last commit Co-authored-by: Ryan <fauxpark@gmail.com> * Update docs/newbs_getting_started.md Co-authored-by: Ryan <fauxpark@gmail.com> * Update docs/newbs_getting_started.md Add 1 line of whitespace under note Co-authored-by: Ryan <fauxpark@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Ryan <fauxpark@gmail.com>
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ In most situations you will want to answer Yes to all of the prompts.
It's possible, that you will get an error saying something like: `bash: qmk: command not found`.
This is due to a [bug](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839155) Debian introduced with their Bash 4.4 release, which removed `$HOME/.local/bin` from the PATH. This bug was later fixed on Debian and Ubuntu.
Sadly, Ubuntu reitroduced this bug and is [yet to fix it](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1588562).
-Luckily, the fix is easy. Run this as your user: `echo "PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> $HOME/.bashrc && source $HOME/.bashrc`
+Luckily, the fix is easy. Run this as your user: `echo "PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:\"$PATH\"" >> $HOME/.bashrc && source $HOME/.bashrc`
?>**Note on FreeBSD**:
It is suggested to run `qmk setup` as a non-`root` user to start with, but this will likely identify packages that need to be installed to your