Civicrm install on Drupal 10 -- packages downloaded but cv command not found for installation

Question

Trying to install civi on a brand new Drupal 10 site (have used Civi for years and have installed before, but back in the Drupal 5, 6, 7 days without any of these new tools). I'm pretty well conditioned to do things through the web-interface, which means I'm struggling more than I should with these command line tools. So, I apologize if this is just totally obvious.

Trying to follow instructions on the Civi documentation to a T. My site seems to have the Civi packages downloaded. And I seem to have cli-tools (at least this is the confirmation I get when I try to reinstall).

But when I try to install, it does not find the cv command. Am I not pointing to the right place? I'm setting the base URL to the exact path that the URL shows when I click on "CiviCRM" on my site. But I have tried it with every possible variation of this path (with/without the civicrm, for example) and get the same problem.

Here's what I'm seeing in my command line screen:

Using version ^2024.01 for civicrm/cli-tools vsource4@s1002:~/www/www/edboost.org$ cv core:install --cms-base-url="https://[actual path to civicirm on website]" --db="mysql://machineuser:[pass]@[livedatabase]/vsource4_edboost2024_civicrm" -bash: cv: command not found

I would so appreciate any help you can provide! -tiffani

Answer 1

If you're using composer to get cv, then you'll probably need to give the full path to cv, e.g.

/path/to/drupal/vendor/civicrm/civicrm-cli-tools/bin/cv core:install ..etc..

(something like that - the cv file will be under vendor somewhere)

An alternative is use the cv download: https://github.com/civicrm/cv?tab=readme-ov-file#download, which has the advantage you can share it between multiple sites on the same server.

And you can still use the UI with civi+drupal10. Once you have all the files downloaded with composer, just enable the civicrm module from the UI list of drupal modules. It will then redirect to the UI installer.

Answer 2

Building on Demerit's answer, I've been able to make some progress and present a partial answer to my first problem.

As I try to install, uninstall, do any of the things that I want to do, I keep hitting the same issue: I don't have permissions on settings.civicrm.php ... Ok, after some more poking around, this was in fact the error. I had not set write permissions on the directory holding the file (only the file itself) and once I corrected that, the reinstallation went through.

So, confirming that Demerit's answer, that I needed the path to use the cv tool was on point. Thank you!