"command not found: podman" on MacOS with oh-my-zsh

[bgdnlp]

After installing on MacOS the podman binary is not in $PATH when using zsh with oh-my-zsh.

Adding

PATH="/opt/podman/bin:$PATH"

to ~/.zprofile is one way to solve it.

I'm not reporting it as a bug because I'm not sure if it should be considered a bug, but it might be useful to test for it, or document it in some way. I've seen both #15542 and #18676.

The issue is that the installer is setting /opt/podman/bin in /etc/paths.d, which is correct, but when using oh-my-zsh specifically, /etc/zprofile is ignored. Which means path_helper never runs and the paths in /etc/paths.d are not set. It's a very specific use case.

[Honny1]

I'm also using oh-my-zsh on macOS, and it works without any problems. Which version of ZSH are you using? I suspect the issue might be on the ZSH side.

zsh --version
zsh 5.9 (arm64-apple-darwin24.0)

Converting this issue to a discussion, since this doesn't sound like a bug on podman side.

[bgdnlp]

Same version here, the one that comes with MacOS. But my .zprofile and .zshrchave been carried over from machine to machine for years. Looking at a different MacBook where I just installed oh-my-zsh it doesn't have a .zprofile at all, probably loads the system one. So yeah, it looks like a me problem. Apologies for the noise.