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Asked: 2026-05-28T17:29:41+00:00

I’ve followed the instructions Google has provided on downloading the Source Tree, but after

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I’ve followed the instructions Google has provided on downloading the Source Tree, but after I run the command

$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-2.3.7_r1

and I receive the following error message :

$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-2.3.7_r1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 690, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 657, in main_Init(args)
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 189, in _Init_CheckGitVersion()
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 214, in _CheckGitVersion
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1106, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

What did I do wrong? Or is this just an error on behalf of Repo?

UPDATE: Now that I’ve installed Python 2.7, I still have almost the exact same error message:

$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-2.3.7_r1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 690, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 657, in main_Init(args)
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 189, in _Init_CheckGitVersion()
File "/Users/roboguy12/bin/repo", line 214, in _CheckGitVersion
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 672, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1202, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I call $ python -V and it says Python 2.7.1, so I don’t know what else I can do.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Seems to me you might have not done a couple of things: chmod’d the repo to +x and/or put it in your $PATH statement as the first directory to look for (and could be using another version of repo). Have you tried ‘ls -al’ instead? The directory you’re looking for is hidden and you need the -a argument in ls to view hidden files/directories.

    UPDATE: Ah, just saw your update. Since you’re using a Mac, you need to use Python 2.7. To do so, you’ll need to MacPort it. This website provided much help to me: INSTALLING PYTHON 2.7, EASY_INSTALL, PIP, VIRTUALENV AND VIRTUALENVWRAPPER ON MAC OS X

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