mik-laj commented on a change in pull request #7221: [AIRFLOW-XXXX] Update
installation doc to suggest installing globally as fallback
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/7221#discussion_r368933069
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File path: docs/installation.rst
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@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ The easiest way to install the latest stable version of
Airflow is with ``pip``:
.. code-block:: bash
pip install apache-airflow
+
+If the `airflow` command is not being recognized, then install Airflow
globally:
Review comment:
Installing airflow globally is very dangerous because Airflow requires a
large number of dependencies that may not be compatible with other applications.
```
11:50 $ python
Python 3.6.8 (v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 02:04:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import airflow.bin
>>> airflow.bin.__file__
'/Users/kamilbregula/devel/CLIENT-airflow/airflow/airflow/bin/__init__.py'
>>>
KeyboardInterrupt
>>>
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> ^D
11:53 $ export
PATH=/Users/kamilbregula/devel/CLIENT-airflow/airflow/airflow/bin:$PATH
```
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