How do I run linode-cli on Mac OS?

Is the directory where linode-cli is stored in your $PATH?

See: https://superuser.com/questions/284342/what-are-path-and-other-environment-variables-and-how-can-i-set-or-use-them

-- sw

Yes, I have tried that but still not working…

But it works on my Linux system even without adding it to path. I don't know how to get it to work on Mac OS

I had to use sudo…

stevewi $ sudo pip3 install linode-cli --upgrade
Password:

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Installing collected packages: idna, chardet, urllib3, certifi, requests, enum34, terminaltables, colorclass, PyYAML, linode-cli
Successfully installed PyYAML-5.3.1 certifi-2020.6.20 chardet-3.0.4 colorclass-2.2.0 enum34-1.1.10 idna-2.10 linode-cli-3.1.3 requests-2.24.0 terminaltables-3.1.0 urllib3-1.25.11
You are using pip version 19.0.3, however version 20.2.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

stevewi:~ $ whereis linode-cli

stevewi:~ $ linode-cli
Welcome to the Linode CLI.  This will walk you through some
initial setup.

First, we need a Personal Access Token.  To get one, please visit
https://cloud.linode.com/profile/tokens and click
"Add a Personal Access Token".  The CLI needs access to everything
on your account to work correctly.
Personal Access Token: ^C

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Here's my PATH:

PATH=.:/Users/stevewi/bin:/Users/stevewi/sbin:/Users/stevewi/.gems/bin: \
/Users/stevewi/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin: \
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin

n.b.,

• /Users/stevewi/.gems/bin:/Users/stevewi/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin are for rbenv installed via Homebrew;
• /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin are for Homebrew; and
• /Library/Apple/usr/bin appears to be part of Xcode.

Perhaps you could install the Homebrew version of python3/pip and use that. I've had far more luck with that approach for ruby than using the Apple-supplied one… I have a lot more control over the environment it uses and it's updated a lot more frequently too.

-- sw

P.S. Homebrew also offers pyenv that does the same thing as rbenv except for python:

stevewi:~ $ brew info pyenv
pyenv: stable 1.2.21 (bottled), HEAD
Python version management
https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/pyenv.rb
License: MIT
==> Dependencies
Required: autoconf ✔, openssl@1.1 ✔, pkg-config ✔, readline ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: 94,388 (30 days), 214,150 (90 days), 733,960 (365 days)
install-on-request: 91,151 (30 days), 206,491 (90 days), 693,634 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)

It works now, thanks.

I had to do

pip3 uninstall linode-cli
sudo pip3 install linode-cli

export PATH="$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin"