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
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Answer 1

On UNIX-like systems like OS X, the script should be in /usr/local/bin. Make sure that directory is in the PATH environment variable in the shell that you use.

If not, you can also locate it using find, e.g:

find / -type f -name 'nosetests*' -perm +111 -print -quit

This means; search for a file whose name starts with nosetests, which has execute permissions set. Print the path name and stop.

Answer 2

There are lots of error occurred when using pip install packages on Mac OS. So I recommend you install nose using easy_install.

$ pip uninstall nose

$ sudo easy_install nose

Then you can try nosetests now :)