I’m encountering difficulties while trying to install a voice recognition library through pip. Whenever I run the command that retrieves data from a GitHub repository, I receive an error message indicating that git cannot be found. The error states ERROR: Error [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified while executing command git version and ERROR: Cannot find command ‘git’ - do you have ‘git’ installed and in your PATH?
I was able to install the basic library using pip install -U openai-whisper, but I am now stuck on the next step. I do have Git set up on my Windows system, but the command prompt appears to not recognize it.
Could someone guide me on how to resolve the PATH issue? As a beginner in coding, I’m uncertain about the steps required to ensure git is accessible from the command prompt.
This happens because the Git executable path is not properly configured in your Windows environment variables. After installing Git, you need to manually add it to your system PATH if the installer didn’t do it automatically. Go to System Properties, then Environment Variables, and add the Git installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\Git\bin) to your PATH variable. Once you save the changes, close all command prompt windows and open a new one. You can verify it works by typing ‘git --version’ in the command prompt. I encountered this exact same issue when setting up my development environment last year, and this solution resolved it immediately.
Windows sometimes fails to recognize Git even after proper installation due to PATH conflicts or incomplete setup. I experienced similar frustration when working with Python packages that depend on Git repositories. Try opening Command Prompt as administrator and run where git to check if the system can locate the executable. If it returns nothing, the PATH isn’t configured correctly. Another approach is to use Git Bash instead of regular Command Prompt for your pip installations, since Git Bash has its own environment that recognizes Git commands. You can also try running refreshenv in Command Prompt after modifying PATH variables, which refreshes the environment without requiring a full system restart. This saved me considerable time when dealing with similar package installation issues.
hey, i had that issue too! make sure you add git to your PATH during install, or it won’t work. restarting cmd often helps too. if still stuck, reinstall git and double check that option.