Activator: command not found

Question

I am trying to install activator in my linux system.

so first I install java

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

downloaded succefully

then I downloaded activator

sudo wget downloads.typesafe.com/typesafe-activator/1.3.4/ypesafe-activator-1.3.4.zip

then added path

export PATH=$PATH:/home/govind/activator-1.3.4/

then reloaded bash by

source ~/.bashrc

then I try to start activator

govind@LINUXSERVER:~$ sudo activator
sudo: activator: command not found

I tried to print path

govind@LINUXSERVER:~$ $PATH
-bash: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/govind/activator-1.3.4/: No such file or directory

but

govind@LINUXSERVER:~$ ls /home/govind/activator-1.3.4/
activator      activator-launch-1.3.4.jar  README.html  templates
activator.bat  LICENSE.html                repository

but not successfull!! what am I missing??

Answer 1

Create a symbolic link to activator:

sudo ln -s /home/govind/activator-1.3.4/activator /usr/bin/activator

You do not need to edit bashrc profile.

Answer 2

I think the documentation should be fixed.The path still works in earlier versions of activator, but the recent versions don't have executable activator in the mentioned directory. Instead, you can find this inside bin folder.

So for earlier versions of activator

export PATH=/home/<user>/activator-dist-1.3.2:$PATH

should do, and for recent versions,

export PATH=/home/<user>/activator-dist-x.x.x/bin:$PATH

/bin is not mentioned in the play documentation