Hi all,
Hope that you are well and safe.
I am looking for a way to make rpd works on my machine.
For the moment, I am running the install script successfully but when Ibam trying to run the software from my app menu (MX/whisker menu), I have a error:
“Failed to exécuté command “rapid-photo-downloader”, Failed to execute child process “rapid-photo-downloader” (No such file or directory)”
Do you have an Idea?
Thanks for any help 
Can you try and launch it from a terminal and paste the output of the command here?
Hi paperdigits,
Thanks for your answer.
Here is the message I have when I run the command:
$ rapid-photo-downloader
bash: rapid-photo-downloader: command not found
what is the output of this command:
ls ~/.local/bin/
Hello Damon,
Here is the output:
$ ls ~/.local/bin/
pip pip3 pip3.7 wheel
That indicates the program did not successfully install. Do you have a standard installation of MX Linux, or did you modify it in some way, such as installing programs from sources other than MX Linux?
No specific install :-s. Really very basic install (just some partitioning for system and data but nothing fancy). And no other software install from the source (no other than RPD), but I might have forgotten it, but don’t see any in my software list. Usually I stick to repos and flatpak/snap/appImage 
.
Run the install.py script again and copy and paste here any relevant output, i.e. errors.
So I won’t have anything relevant to paste here
[...]
Stored in directory: /home/myusername/.cache/pip/wheels/9c/8b/fc/fb386fb0dd020f90408621c211ed3960439a5e47c52f4e5004
Successfully built rapid-photo-downloader
Installing collected packages: rapid-photo-downloader
Successfully installed rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.29
Done.
I would have liked to have error message but I don’t, and that’s why I am a bit “lost” in the way to solve this.
That might be very simple but I don’t understand where things failed…
Edit: I haven’t restart yet after the install but the output is (obviously) before this step so I don’t think that it matter here.
Edit2: I am rebuilding my environment in a VM to try it “from scratch” on a fresh install.
I observe the same issue on a fresh install, where the output of the “ls” command is a bit different and seems a little bit more “ok”
ls ~/.local/bin/
analyze-pv-structure pip pip3 pip3.7 rapid-photo-downloader showinfilemanager wheel
But still this “file or directory not found”/“Failed…”
You probably simply need to restart.
I’ll do asap but I will do that not being very confident about the result because I have already done a restard on my main machine and on the VM (I am cloning my VM to try on MX Linux 21 this time… but it is on Debian 11, so I think that it will be more problematic than anything else 
).
Edit: Same error after reboot
The technical reason to restart is because Debian does not include ~/.local/bin in the $PATH by default unless it detects it is being used at login. I do not know the historic reason for this, but they have done it that way for a long time.
If MX Linux does not do that for you for whatever reason, then you need to add ~/.local/bin to the $PATH yourself. You can do so in .profile or .bashrc depending on your setup.
Resolved.
Just as simple as a PATH issue 
It was a bit tricky and not sure I can reproduce it as I don’t really know when does the rapid-photo-downloader folder as been added in the ~/.local/bin directory… but after several “install.py” and 2 restart, it works
Just as a note / FYI:
In the menu, I have had to edit the command for the full path: ~/.local/bin/rapid-photo-downloader %f
Thanks a lot for your help !!!
Glad to see it’s now sorted out. It’s a bit odd however it didn’t work the first time. Is it possible the .bashrc and/or .profile in your home directory are from before 2016 or so? If so then they wouldn’t necessarily have the steps that Debian normally takes when it detects the presence of ~/.local/bin whenever the user logs in.
Hi Damon,
Sorry for not responding earlier !
About your question, I don’t think that it is from before 2016 (except if it is in MX Linux “2021”). My install is kind of fresh from the first quarter of 2021.
Cheers