"cmake --version" points to /usr/bin/cmake while "which cmake" points to /usr/local/bin

Asked Jan 29 '19 at 22:14

Active Apr 24 '20 at 09:28

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I am trying to upgrade cmake on my linux computer. Here is the command I used

sudo apt purge --auto-remove cmake

After downloading and extracted cmake-3.13.3.tar.gz

./bootstrap
make 
sudo make install

when I did cmake --version it returns

bash: /usr/bin/cmake: No such file or directory

However no cmake executable exists in /usr/bin and strangely which cmake returns

/usr/local/bin/cmake

which is where cmake actually is.

My $path is

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

How do I have the command cmake point to /usr/local/bin/cmake?

asked Jan 29 '19 at 22:14

kkawabat

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If /usr/bin/cmake was removed only recently, then it's possible your current shell has hashed the old value. See Pytest is in PATH but not found for a similar case. – steeldriver Jan 29 '19 at 22:37
Thank you so much that fixed it. If you want to make this the answer i will accept it. – kkawabat Jan 29 '19 at 23:01
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/cmake /usr/bin/ – Frost Xu Apr 24 '20 at 09:28

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