I have been trying to install

scie-pants

in our CI/CD pipeline which runs inside a docker container on AWS. Even after modifying the PATH with

~/bin

, pants is not found. What am I missing? I run these commands

"export PATH=$PATH:~/bin"
"./get-pants.sh"
"pants --version"

This is the log from the container

[Container] 2023/03/20 11:28:34 Running command export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
[Container] 2023/03/20 11:28:34 Running command ./get-pants.sh
Downloading and installing the pants launcher ...
Installed the pants launcher from <https://github.com/pantsbuild/scie-pants/releases/latest/download/scie-pants-linux-x86_64> to /root/bin/pants
Running `pants` in a Pants-enabled repo will use the version of Pants configured for that repo.
In a repo not yet Pants-enabled, it will prompt you to set up Pants for that repo.
[Container] 2023/03/20 11:28:35 Running command pants --version
/codebuild/output/tmp/script.sh: 4: pants: not found

So, get-pants.sh has options, you might use them to place pants elsewhere, say in /usr/bin. I suspect root is not the final user.

They are bash shell. These are shell commands run by AWS inside codebuild. But your first guess was correct. I think the final usr isn’t root but some codebuild user. I see

/usr/local/bin/

being available. What option should I use to install directly there?

I'm going to let you do the same reading I'd have to do.

ah ok! Let me check. Thanks

I have no clue what your requirements are. That's totally up to you.

yeah I guess safer to do.

Ok, great. So it was a user switch issue?

Yes