Where should the lima-guestagent* files be placed?

[jytte-amalie]

I'm attempting to make a minimal, portable / self-contained directory structure that I can copy to and run on another system, but I'm having trouble figuring out where to place the lima-guestagent* files. I'd like to be able to place them somewhere relative to my CWD where I'm running the following commands on macOS. I have the lima-guestagent.Linux-aarch64.gz and lima-guestagent.Linux-x86_64.gz files.

./limactl create --arch=aarch64 template:alpine
FATA[0000] guest agent binary could not be found for Linux-aarch64: file does not exist (Hint: try installing lima-additional-guestagents package)

./limactl create --vm-type=qemu --arch=x86_64 template:alpine
FATA[0000] guest agent binary could not be found for Linux-x86_64: file does not exist (Hint: try installing lima-additional-guestagents package)

[AkihiroSuda]

<PREFIX>/share/lima, when limactl is installed in <PREFIX>/bin (e.g., /usr/local/bin, ~/.local/bin)

[jytte-amalie]

Thank you so much. I tried so many different things, but it never occurred to me that it needed to be in the <PREFIX>/bin directory. I was trying to run the binary within just <PREFIX> and even though the <PREFIX>/share directory and contents were correct, that doesn't work. It's working now.

[afbjorklund]

Your home directory will also look a bit nicer with bin and share (or man) directories, if not using ~/.local or similar...
And you can drop the ./ prefix, if you put this directory in the PATH. Something that happens on Ubuntu, second login.

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

Or PWD, if you prefer that.

Maybe with DirEnv as well?