Installing Leiningen for Clojure on Linux Mint 12

Question

Im a clojure beginner.I did the following steps as given on http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/clojure/brief-beginners-guide/development-env.html to setup Leiningen on my machine running Linux Mint 12.

cd ~/bin
wget https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
chmod +x lein
lein self-install

But now when i run the following command :

lein new foobar

I get

The program 'lein' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install leiningen

I see a file leiningen-1.7.1-standalone.jar in ~/.lein/self-installs. Why am i being asked to install lein again using package manager even though i used the self-install method ?

Please Help Thank You

Answer 1

It seems like your ~/bin directory is not on your PATH.

In your .bashrc (or .bash_profile) you need to add something like:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH