Installation failed

tried to install today on latest debian 10
Screenshot_2021-02-01_15-16-13
a menu item has beed added, but it does not work.

How did you install it? On which distro?

I just donwloaded and ran the installation script.

Installing applicationā€¦

Processing /tmp/tmpzbyoyxse/rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.26.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: rapid-photo-downloader
Building wheel for rapid-photo-downloader (setup.py): started
Building wheel for rapid-photo-downloader (setup.py): finished with status ā€˜doneā€™
Created wheel for rapid-photo-downloader: filename=rapid_photo_downloader-0.9.26-py3-none-any.whl size=6449854 sha256=785efcd651dbd74424438351aaf9038dfbafd0fa6b2a9c1fa49bb49b2e2dfd7a
Stored in directory: /home/martin/.cache/pip/wheels/2b/ae/fc/8ee8795077d2ab563a67b228ec09b8b78ec2616a5ef1ebd5e4
Successfully built rapid-photo-downloader
Installing collected packages: rapid-photo-downloader
Successfully installed rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.26

it does not work after reboot

python3 install.py
Detected Linux distribution Debian 10

Downloading https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.26/+download/rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.26.tar.gz (8.21 MB)
0% [##############################] 100% | ETA: 00:00:00
Total time elapsed: 00:00:02

Determining most appropriate PyQt5 packageā€¦
ā€¦will use PyQt5 packaged by Debian.

Querying package system to see if an older version of Rapid Photo Downloader is installed (this may take a while)ā€¦
Checking if previous version installed with pipā€¦
Found existing installation: rapid-photo-downloader 0.9.26
Uninstalling rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.26:
Successfully uninstalled rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.26

Installing application requirementsā€¦

Have you restarted or logged in/out?

yes reboot. please note that I am running XFCE as window manager

when I search for ā€œrapid-photo-downloaderā€, I do not find any filename that matches. Only the desktop.entry is added to the /home/martin/.local/share/applications/

I also did run a search in /usr no match anywhere.

I think the executable is not found not installed.
Screenshot_2021-02-01_15-16-13

Can you find it on the terminal?

Did you run the installer as root? My bet is that it got installed in your home directory in a location not in your PATH.

Installation instructions have been followed: I ran the script on my personal account name. Not root. The .desktop shortcut has been created in my home account subdirectory.

find . -name rapid-photo-downloader -print
./.local/bin/rapid-photo-downloader
martin@debian:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

I added ~./.local/bin to PATH and it works now.
case closed.
Thank you

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