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You need to correctly set up your Flutter path.

From macOS install - Update your path:

1. Determine the directory where you placed the Flutter SDK. You will need this in Step 3.

2. Open (or create) $HOME/.bash_profile. You can do that by using terminal text editor by going in terminal and typing nano ~/.bash_profile

   macOS v10.15 (Catalina) uses the Z shell by default, so edit $file HOME/.zshrc.

   If you are using a different shell, the file path and filename will be different on your machine.

3. Add the following line and change [PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY] to be the path where you cloned Flutter’s Git repository is:

    export PATH=[PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY]/flutter/bin:$PATH
   

   For example:

    export PATH=~/Documents/flutter/bin:$PATH
   

4. Press Ctrl + X and when it asks you to save the file, choose Yes

5. Run source $HOME/.bash_profile to refresh the current window or restart the terminal

6. Verify that the flutter/bin directory is now in your PATH by running:

    echo $PATH
   

   Notice that [PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY] is where you installed Flutter SDK, not the location of your app

Instead of nano, you can use any text editor to edit file ~/.bash_profile.

For zsh:

1. Open Terminal
2. Run: nano ~/.zshrc
3. Add: export PATH=[PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY]/flutter/bin:$PATH
4. Run: source ~/.zshrc
5. restart terminal
6. Run: flutter doctor -v

For example : if flutter in your machine has been installed under [your_username]/Developer/flutter

export PATH=Developer/flutter/bin:$PATH

I tried out all the methods in previous answers, but all of them lasted only while the terminal was open. So I went ahead and directly added it to the path file permanently.

sudo nano /etc/paths

Add this to the file:

/Users/yourUserName/Development/flutter/bin

Save the file by pressing Ctrl + X, Y and then Enter. Close the terminal and reopen it again. Tada!

If you are using zsh, you need to follow the steps below on Mac.

• Download the latest Flutter version from the official site.
• Unzip it and move to the $HOME location of your Mac.
• Add to the path via the .zshrc file.
• Run nano ~/.zshrc into an iTerm2 terminal.
• Export PATH=$HOME/flutter/bin:$PATH
• Save and close the ~/.zshrc file.
• Restart iTerm2.
• Now you will have the Flutter executable available.

Do the following steps:

1. Download the Flutter SDK

   Flutter SDK Archive

2. Extract it where do you want (for example /home/development/flutter)

3. Set your PATH. Edit your file with the command gedit ~/.profile. You need to add this line:

   export PATH=[location_where_you_extracted_flutter]/flutter/bin:$PATH
   

   I showed you above where I've extracted mine, so my export will look like this:

   export PATH=/home/myUser/development/flutter/bin:$PATH
   

4. Save the file and close it.

5. Run source ~/.profile to load the changes

6. If you now run flutter doctor, it should work!

If you are on macOS

First find the location of your Flutter SDK

Flutter SDK File: Write the below command on your terminal to download the Flutter SDK

git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git

For example: the SDK executable file name is flutter and it is in folder Downloads

Close and open your terminal again.

And enter the following commands in your terminal

cd Downloads # Go to Downloads

cd flutter   # Go to folder 'flutter'

pwd          # /Users/[USERNAME]/downloads/flutter/

whoami       # Your [USERNAME]

export PATH="/Users/[USERNAME]/downloads/flutter/bin":$PATH

macOS v10.14 (Mojave); Wireshark Path problem

In your terminal, run:

touch $HOME/.bash_profile

vi $HOME/.bash_profile

Now use I to insert and paste the following:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME:/PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY/flutter/bin"

Use Esc and type :wq! to save the file and exit.

Refresh:

source $HOME/.bash_profile

And verify it's OK by running:

echo $PATH

You must have the .bash_profile file and define the flutter path in the .bash_profile file.

1. First of all, if you do not have or do not know file .bash_profile, please look my answer: How do I edit $PATH (.bash_profile) on OSX?

2. You should add the below line (.../flutter_SDK_path/flutter/bin) in your .bash_profile:

    export PATH=$PATH:/home/username/Documents/flutter_SDK_path/flutter/bin
   

After these steps, you can write Flutter code such as, flutter doctor, flutter build ios, flutter clean, etc. in the terminal of a MacBook.