Watchman was not found

[thecodecafe]

🐛 Bug Report

Flipper Setup doctor says watchman is not installed.
I tried looking for how to add to my path to see if that's the issue but I can't find a guide anywhere that does that.

To Reproduce

• Install Watchman with homebrew on Macbook M1 Max
• Install Flipper from the site.
• Launch Flipper

Environment

Machine - Macbook Pro M1 Max
Flipper Version - Version 0.239.0 (50.0.0)

[ms314006]

Do you already have a solution? I encounter same issue. My flipper version is 0.239.0.

[ihgvan]

You probably need to add the following line to the profile you are using, ie .profile or .zprofile.
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" per https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/446

[Krasovskyi]

You probably need to add the following line to the profile you are using, ie .profile or .zprofile. eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" per https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/446

It didn't help me.

[HarbinLc2014]

Same here. Trying to setup flipper but keep having this issue

[thecodecafe]

For me, all I dud was install watchman again and the issue went away.

[Karl-Styner]

Same here...

[akhockey21]

I'm also having this issue.

I've made sure my ~/.zshrc profile is configured correctly and I have even tried installing watchman head.

[r1skz3ro]

I have the same problem. It looks like brew mismatched folders when installing watchman on mac's with silicon, or it was wrongly linked between /opt/homebrew/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/, even though exports from $PATH were correct and technically everything should work for flipper, as it was locally.

I've solved it with:

• brew update
• brew uninstall watchman
• which watchman - This is interesting because in my case it gave me /usr/local/bin/watchman when it should have printed watchman not found. When i tried to use watchman for example watchman shutdown-server i got exec format error: watchman, so watchman must have been broken in some way. I haven't tested it, but if you run where watchman before brew uninstall watchman it should return:

/usr/local/bin/watchman
/opt/homebrew/bin/watchman

as it existed in those 2 places for some reason.

• if which watchman from the previous step printed /usr/local/bin/watchman as in my case, run cd /usr/local/bin/ and rm watchman you may need to use sudo here, so: sudo rm watchman
• now which watchman should return watchman not found
• brew install watchman
• which watchman -> /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman, now i thought it should work, but watchman was still missing in flipper.
• i checked for existance of watchman in /usr/local/bin/ and it wasn't there, but it was here /usr/local/bin/watchman. I symlinked it with ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman /usr/local/bin/watchman.
• now in flipper after re-running doctor it finally appeared green.

[leurs247]

I have the same problem. It looks like brew mismatched folders when installing watchman on mac's witch silicon, or it was wrongly linked between /opt/homebrew/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/, even though exports from $PATH were correct and technically everything should work for flipper, as it was locally.

I've solved it with:

• brew update
• brew uninstall watchman
• which watchman - This is interesting because in my case it gave me /usr/local/bin/watchman when it should have printed watchman not found. When i tried to use watchman for example watchman shutdown-server i got exec format error: watchman, so watchman must have been broken in some way. I haven't tested it, but if you run where watchman before brew uninstall watchman it should return:

/usr/local/bin/watchman
/opt/homebrew/bin/watchman

as it existed in those 2 places for some reason.

• if which watchman from the previous step printed /usr/local/bin/watchman as in my case, run cd /usr/local/bin/ and rm watchman you may need to use sudo here, so: sudo rm watchman
• now which watchman should return watchman not found
• brew install watchman
• which watchman -> /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman, now i thought it should work, but watchman was still missing in flipper.
• i checked for existance of watchman in /usr/local/bin/ and it wasn't there, but it was here /usr/local/bin/watchman. I symlinked it with ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman /usr/local/bin/watchman.
• now in flipper after re-running doctor it finally appeared green.

I had the same issue (watchman installed through homebrew). Symlinking was the only thing I had to do to get it working.

[bart-le]

In my case, Homebrew didn't mismatch the watchman path and it was cleanly installed. I double-checked in /usr/local/bin and /opt/homebrew/bin/ each time. Also, running which -a watchman before and after uninstalling yielded the same output.

/opt/homebrew/bin/watchman

For some reason, the problem seems to only persist on the in-browser Flipper Server.

I've uninstalled it and installed the standalone Electron app from v0.239.0 release. Unfortunately, it's no longer maintained, so any later releases only ship with browser versions.

To my surprise, it just worked out of the box and I didn't have to symlink anything. All of the packages passed setup doctor checks. I'm sticking with it until it's fixed.

[ialwayswatching]

Could someone help me whats wrong?

[IgorGanapolsky]

I too am getting this error in Flipper on my Mac:

[zainkhas]

Same issue in Macbook M1. I had an older Desktop app installed and everything works setup correctly, I wanted to make sure I was on the latest version of Flipper, installed the latest version (Server) and got this error.

[sauravBalodi1]

@IgorGanapolsky is it fixed for you ?
also I can see no application selected is it also fixed ?
i m also getting the same error whenever I open the flipper no application is found and watchman issue

[SergiusR]

The same issue. MAC M1

~ % where watchman
/opt/homebrew/bin/watchman

[esbenvb]

In my case, it was enough to type

sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman /usr/local/bin/watchman

to make flipper happy

[slice-happysingh]

@esbenvb Thanks, that solved the issue.

[zcw90]

@esbenvb good + nice，It's works for me.

[moisesmiss]

En mi caso bastaba con escribir

sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman /usr/local/bin/watchman

hacer feliz a flipper

this work for me! thanks!