Cannot run commands to make sherlock work

[Joe-Swanson000]

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• I'm reporting a bug in Sherlock's functionality
• The bug I'm reporting is not a false positive or a false negative
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I have just recently installed sherlock, and I cannot get it to run properly. I have installed the latest version, and also have Python and Pip. Here is how I went about my installation process:
1.) Installed Sherlock Zip folder on desktop
2.) Extracted all and made a new folder on desktop
3.) Installed Python 3.10.2 windows installer and have completed the install process.
4.) Typed in this command into cmd running as admin: cd C:\Users\19706\Desktop\sherlock-master
5.) Ran the command: pip3 install –r requirements.txt. Then get and error that says; "ERROR: Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'

Please help with this. I've been trying to find videos and articles on this, but there has been 0 help as of now.

I have also tried to clone the repo, but I get this message: git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[Ishanned]

Regarding git command :
It seems git is not installed properly. Try running git --version in the command prompt. If the same issue shows up, then try to uninstall git and install afresh.
Also can I have a look inside sherlock-master folder of yours?

[Joe-Swanson000]

Regarding git command : It seems git is not installed properly. Try running git --version in the command prompt. If the same issue shows up, then try to uninstall git and install afresh. Also can I have a look inside sherlock-master folder of yours?

Here is what is inside of my sherlock master folder. Also, can you link to me afresh? I tried to do git --version, but it just led me to this:

[sivaprassath99]

Try to add PATH to the GIT.
If your on Windows
Try this,

• Go to My Computer => Local Disk(C:) => Program Files(x86) => Git => cmd
• Right Click the git => Select Properties
• Under the location Copy the text eg - C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd
• Come back to the Desktop
• Right-click My Computer
  • Select property
  • Open Advanced and Click Environment Variables
  • In the System variables Find the Variable call Path
  • Click the variable
  • Click the Edit Button
  • Select the Variable value Text Box .
  • Add a semicolon (;) in last
  • Then Right-click and press Paste
  • Press Apply and OK

[Joe-Swanson000]

I don't have git though, that's the thing. And I've tried to reinstall python and sherlock, but I still don't have Git. Is it like a separate program I have to install?

[sivaprassath99]

I don't have git though, that's the thing. And I've tried to reinstall python and sherlock, but I still don't have Git. Is it like a separate program I have to install?

Yes, You have to install Git separately.

[Ishanned]

If you want to get started right away, one thing you can do is open requirements.txt, then go to command prompt, type pip install variable , where you replace variable with each item in the list.
Like for the first element, you type in pip install certifi>=2019.6.16, then let it install and then proceed with other items in the file.
Note: as a programmer, its a bit unhealthy practice as this does not follow DRY.

[JDR11]

@Joe-Swanson000 I believe it is as simple as you were not running the commands from the correct folder.
You were running it from:
C:\Users\19706\Desktop\sherlock-master
But with the way you have unzipped it you should be running the command from:
C:\Users\19706\Desktop\sherlock-master\sherlock-master

[Joe-Swanson000]

I don't have git though, that's the thing. And I've tried to reinstall python and sherlock, but I still don't have Git. Is it like a separate program I have to install?

Yes, You have to install Git separately.

• Thank you. I installed Git and ran the commands through there, but I did get an error message. I did the command:
  "$ git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git"
• And had it downloaded. Then I cd'd into sherlock: "cd sherlock"
• Lastly I ran "pip3 install -r requirements.txt" and downloaded everything. I did though get something near the end that read:

"You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Users\19706\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command."

Don't know if I should get it, but nonetheless, I digress. This next step is where I encountered the problems. The command: "python3 sherlock.py Marss_NE" Marss has a Twitter acct, so I wanted to see if it would work, but all I got was the error:

"C:\Users\19706\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.exe: can't open file 'C:\Users\19706\sherlock\sherlock.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

[Joe-Swanson000]

If you want to get started right away, one thing you can do is open requirements.txt, then go to command prompt, type pip install variable , where you replace variable with each item in the list. Like for the first element, you type in pip install certifi>=2019.6.16, then let it install and then proceed with other items in the file. Note: as a programmer, its a bit unhealthy practice as this does not follow DRY.

I decided to download git, and got most of the commands working aside from 1. Thank you for the help though

[Joe-Swanson000]

@Joe-Swanson000 I believe it is as simple as you were not running the commands from the correct folder. You were running it from: C:\Users\19706\Desktop\sherlock-master But with the way you have unzipped it you should be running the command from: C:\Users\19706\Desktop\sherlock-master\sherlock-master

This makes sense actually. If installing git didn't work, then I'd probably have done this.

[sivaprassath99]

Don't know if I should get it, but nonetheless, I digress. This next step is where I encountered the problems. The command: "python3 sherlock.py Marss_NE" Marss has a Twitter acct, so I wanted to see if it would work, but all I got was the error:

"C:\Users\19706\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.exe: can't open file 'C:\Users\19706\sherlock\sherlock.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

Check whether the file is that directory. You may have been trying this in another directory.

[Joe-Swanson000]

Don't know if I should get it, but nonetheless, I digress. This next step is where I encountered the problems. The command: "python3 sherlock.py Marss_NE" Marss has a Twitter acct, so I wanted to see if it would work, but all I got was the error:

"C:\Users\19706\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.exe: can't open file 'C:\Users\19706\sherlock\sherlock.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

Check whether the file is that directory. You may have been trying this in another directory.

The thing is, I do have sherlock.py, and python

[JDR11]

You mentioned earlier there was one command which wasn't working.
Which one was it? Was it perhaps the pip3 install -r requirements.txt?
Edit: Ignore please, didn't read previous comments thoroughly.