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I have installed Fabric on Python2.6 using pip, and it has created two directories:

/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabfile
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric

When I initially ran the $ fab command it said "command not found". Then I made sure my system path included both folders, and still I got "command not found". Furthermore, I looked in each folder and could not find the fab file or directory.

Note: I can do this from the Python prompt

>>> from fabric.api import ...

What do I need to do to be able to execute the $ fab command? Thank you.

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I did exactly what Torsen saids and it works for me.

sudo find / | grep "fab"

I found fab file at /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/fab on Mac OS X.

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Mine was hiding in /local/bin/fab (Elementary OS Luna), but was looking in /usr/bin/fab: No such file or directory . Added location to path and works. Thanks!
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Executives like this are usually not copied to your library folder of python (so not in site-packages). In Ubuntu this one is for example copied into /usr/bin which is in the PATH. I don't know though were it is in your case (since it is not automatically in your PATH). So all you can do is search for fab in your file system.

PS: That you can import fabric in your python interpreter is correct, since the python library (in your site-packages) is in your PATH, though as said, the file to execute fab is somewhere else.

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