flyctl isn't persistent

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Okay, maybe I’m dumb and I’m missing a step here, but I have to reinstall flyctl every time I boot my terminal. I am using an Ubuntu shell on a Windows 11 machine.

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WSL might not be persisting your PATH variable. Assuming you are using bash, try the following:

  • Install flyctl again

  • Run:

which fly
  • Replacing <output of which fly goes here> with the output of which fly, run:
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:<output of which fly goes here>' >> ~/.bashrc
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If you install flyctl on WSL2 and flyctl is not already in your path, the output will contain some post install instructions. Here is what I get when I install on WSl2:

$ curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1475    0  1475    0     0   4483      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  4469
######################################################################## 100.0%
set channel to shell
flyctl was installed successfully to /home/rubys/.fly/bin/flyctl
Manually add the directory to your $HOME/.bash_profile (or similar)
  export FLYCTL_INSTALL="/home/rubys/.fly"
  export PATH="$FLYCTL_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"
Run '/home/rubys/.fly/bin/flyctl --help' to get started
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