Installed Nose but cannot use on command line

Question

I installed Nose on a Mac OSX 10.10.5 with Python2.7.9 using easy_install. The installation appeared to be successful:

Collecting nose
  Downlo         


        

Answer 1

From what I understand, everyone is moving to pytest - an actively-maintained testing framework.

It's not a solution to this problem, but it's likely the most-appropriate choice if you are still using nose.

Answer 2

This can also happen if you were running nose within a virtual environment, and that virtual environment has been deactivated. If this is the case, reactivate with source bin/activate.

Answer 3

I had this exact issue on OS X EI Captain with Python 2.7.10.

First I installed nose using pip:

$sudo pip install nose 

which failed on the first attempt. Went through on the second attempt. But the nosetests command didn't work.

In order to fix this:

Step 1: Don't uninstall nose if it was installed already using pip as in my case.

Step 2:

$cd /usr/bin

$sudo easy_install nose 

Above command finds the nosetests script (which was installed by pip earlier) & sets it under /usr/local/bin

Step 3: Try nosetests

$nosetests

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.047s

OK

Answer 4

First, can you run 'python' from the command line? nosetests should be in that same directory:

rich bin $ which python
/home/rich/anaconda/bin/python
rich bin $ which nosetests
/home/rich/anaconda/bin/nosetests

It should also be in the downloaded nose package:

rich bin $ find /home/rich/anaconda -name nosetests
/home/rich/anaconda/pkgs/nose-1.3.3-py27_0/bin/nosetests
/home/rich/anaconda/pkgs/nose-1.3.7-py27_0/bin/nosetests
/home/rich/anaconda/bin/nosetests

Answer 5

I found that going to

Library/usr/bin 

and running

sudo easy_install nose

it seems that sometimes it doesn't automatically install nose (and therefore nosetests functionality). Do the above lines, and you should be a-ok.

I wish i had a better explanation for why this happened, but i'm still pretty new, myself.

Answer 6

I try to reinstall the pip, it doesn't work but lastly, when i use sudo ...it works

pip3 uninstall nose

sudo pip3 install nose

and

which nosetests

/usr/local/bin/nosetests