b2 Not Installing

[shmecklen]

I'm trying to install the b2 command line tool in macOS 11.1, but no method seems to work. I'm one of those users who copypastes commands from instructions into Terminal.

The "self-contained download" at https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html downloads as a 7.4 mb file with no extension. It only opens in text edit as unintelligible machine code, so I tried the Python method.

I updated to Python version 3.9.1 and called pip install --upgrade b2 this returned: -bash: /usr/local/bin/pip: /usr/local/opt/python3/bin/python3.6: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I went to that directory, and it contains python3.7, not python 3.6.

Then I tried sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed b2 It prompted my password, then returned: sudo: unable to execute /usr/local/bin/pip: No such file or directory

I went to /usr/local/bin/ and it does contain a pip Unix Executable file.

Tried reinstalling pip, but got the same errors above. I'm at a total loss, any help would be appreciated.

[ppolewicz]

The self-contained thing is an executable binary. use chmod +x file_name on it to mark it as executable on your filesystem, then ./file_name to actually run it

[shmecklen]

Ok, that worked. Strange how the instructions assume someone would know those steps at: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html

Thanks Pawel!

[Lasvad]

Agreed! This needs to be added to the docs. Making it an executable is an important step!

Edit: actually this step is in the Usage section. Perhaps moving it closer to the download link would prevent some confusion.