Balena CLI not running under Debian11

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Following the instructions in Get Started with balenaCloud using BeagleBone Green and Python - Balena Documentation

1)installed os on beaglebone ok, shows up on dash.

  1. installed balena-cli on debian, won’t run & get command not found error.

mike@Thorin:~/Downloads/balena/balena-cli$ balena login
bash: balena: command not found

Directory listing:

mike@Thorin:~/Downloads/balena/balena-cli$ ls -l
total 211704
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 abstract-socket
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mike mike 216677370 Jun 9 15:41 balena
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 cpu-features
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 drivelist
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 etcher-sdk
drwxr-xr-x 4 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 ffi-napi
drwxr-xr-x 4 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 lzma-native
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 mountutils
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 ref-napi
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 @ronomon
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 ssh2
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 usb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mike mike 25763 Jun 9 15:41 xdg-open
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mike mike 21439 Jun 9 15:41 xdg-open-402
drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Jun 9 15:28 xxhash-addon

So it looks like the software installed ok. The Directory was added to the PATH, and I was trying to run the command from the directory. Program has execute permissions.

Also tried the git access,
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the first command returned:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

“set up Git remote” is obscure.
There needs to be more information for people (like me) who haven’t done this before.

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Hi,

The first error says you can’t run balena, this can have two causes (in order of likelihood):

  1. You haven’t properly added the directory containing balena to your PATH environment variable; note you may also need to logout and login for it to take effect. Also note that your current directory is not part of PATH; if you want to run the executable in your current directory, you need to use ./balena instead of balena
  2. You downloaded a version incompatible with your computer architecture (ex. trying to run x86-64 on ARM)

The “setup git remote” bit assumes you are already working on a project using git.
The error you are getting suggests you are not.

There are plenty of tutorials on how to use git; for example this one.

You basically have 2 options: create a new git repository (with your existing source code), or clone an existing one.
To create a new one, go to your project directory and run git init.
To use an existing repository, you can run git clone https://github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-nodejs-hello-world.git (or whichever project you want) and then cd to that directory.

From your project directory that now contains a .git directory, you can run the git remote add balena ... and git push balena master commands.

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