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Butler not working?

A topic by Ghostdoor Games created Feb 12, 2020 Views: 1,607 Replies: 8
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Ghostdoor Games4 years ago

I'm trying to run butler from the command terminal (cmd.exe), but my system is acting like the program doesn't exist? I know I've installed it correctly (to my knowledge at least), and I've tried using the "butler -V" command, and it still acts weird. I've never used butler before, so if anyone can help me that would be great. Thanks! (Btw if screenshots are needed I can add some.)

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mid4 years ago

“acts weird” is not enough to really understand what’s happening. Can you post your command line and it’s output?

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Ghostdoor Games4 years ago

Yeah, sorry I was kinda vague there. (Before I forget, the "$ butler -V" command shows the same error.)

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mid4 years ago

In *nix-speak, the dollar means that the command isn’t run in “administrator mode”. You’re not meant to literally type it in.

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Ghostdoor Games4 years ago (1 edit)

Oh wow, I'm dumb. Thank you, I'll give that a try...nope, same result.

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. I'm going to try deleting and redownloading the program, that usually fixes this stuff.

EDIT: So I'm going to try downloading the itch.io app and redownloading butler from there.

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Ghostdoor Games4 years ago

It didn't work. Same crap is happening. I'm probably going try looking into contacting the developer at some point.

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mid4 years ago

That just means that butler’s directory isn’t in your PATH environment variable, not the developer’s fault.

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Ghostdoor Games4 years ago

Sorry if I implied it was the dev's fault, that's not at all what I meant. What I meant was that the dev might know how to fix the issue, but I think I'm gonna just leave it be for now.

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mid4 years ago

You need to add the directory that “butler.exe” is in to the PATH environment variable, and that should fix the issue.

I don’t know if Butler has a Windows-specific installer or if it has an option to automate that.

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