ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Mar 03, 2019 12:46 pm #80892 Hello,

I'm new to esp8266.
I have downloaded and installed the board for the esp8266 in the Arduino IDE but when I try to compile a sketch I have this message :
exec: "python": executable file not found in $PATH
Error compiling for board Generic ESP8266 Module.
... It's the same message for every esp8266 board. If I choose another board (Genuino etc.) it works.

I have checked the $PATH and it seems that python is included :
echo $PATH
[...]:/usr/bin/python

Python is installed correctly :
>python
Python 2.7.15rc1 (default, Nov 12 2018, 14:31:15)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.02

Could you help me please ?

- Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:07 pm #81522 Hi,

No solution I am afraid! I have the same problem, did you manage to fix it?

- Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:03 pm #81524 I had the same fault in Linux Mint. It was resolved by downloading the package and installing it manually, rather than via the software manager.

- Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:17 pm #81628 I also had the same issue in Linux Mint. But have 2 different versions of the IDE installed. In v 1.8.9 i don't get this any more