Error pass --path path to confluent flag or set environment variable CONFLUENT HOME

Question

I installed confluent kafka in my system, but I am getting the below error.

$ ./confluent local start
Error: pass --path /path/to/confluent flag or set environment variable CONFLUENT_HOME

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Before starting confluent kafka in your system, you have to set PATH and CONFLUENT_HOME in /etc/profile file.

vim /etc/profile
PATH=CONFLUENT_HOME/bin:PATH
CONFLUENT_HOME={replace home directory path of confluent}

Thank You

Comments

/etc/profile is read only, not able to update the file.

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Hi,

I think you are trying with different user. Try with root user.