[GitHub] [airflow] mik-laj commented on a change in pull request #7221: [AIRFLOW-XXXX] Update installation doc to suggest installing globally as fallback

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mik-laj commented on a change in pull request #7221: [AIRFLOW-XXXX] Update installation doc to suggest installing globally as fallback
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/7221#discussion_r368933069
 
 

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 File path: docs/installation.rst
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 @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ The easiest way to install the latest stable version of Airflow is with ``pip``:
 .. code-block:: bash
 
     pip install apache-airflow
+    
+If the `airflow` command is not being recognized, then install Airflow globally:
 
 Review comment:
   Installing airflow globally is very dangerous because Airflow requires a large number of dependencies that may not be compatible with other applications.
   ```
   11:50 $ python
   Python 3.6.8 (v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 02:04:31)
   [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
   >>> import airflow.bin
   >>> airflow.bin.__file__
   '/Users/kamilbregula/devel/CLIENT-airflow/airflow/airflow/bin/__init__.py'
   >>>
   KeyboardInterrupt
   >>>
   KeyboardInterrupt
   >>> ^D
   11:53 $ export PATH=/Users/kamilbregula/devel/CLIENT-airflow/airflow/airflow/bin:$PATH
   ```

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