SRA ToolKit: can't verify binaries

Question

[Izzy]

Hello!

I am installing the SRA toolkit. After running:

which fastq-dump

to test if the binaries are found by the shell no output is given. It is supposed to give an output similar to:

/Users/JoeUser/sratoolkit.3.0.0-ubuntu64/bin/fastq-dump

Prior to running which fastq-dump I ran:

export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/sratoolkit.3.0.0-ubuntu64/bin

Any help is appreciated!

[GenoMax]

export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/sratoolkit.3.0.0-ubuntu64/bin

Why not use export PATH=$PATH:/path_to/sratoolkit.3.0.0-ubuntu64/bin? $PWD may have been some other directory when you executed this command.