.dapr folder not installed

[spottedmahn]

I'm on step 5 of the guide: Step 5: Verify components directory has been initialized & I'm not seeing that folder:

$ ls ~/.dapr
ls: cannot access '/home/mdepouw/.dapr': No such file or directory

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I've tried this guide previously so I old bits installed so I ran an uninstall first:

sudo dapr uninstall
ℹ️ Removing Dapr from your machine...
ℹ️ Removing directory: /root/.dapr/bin
ℹ️ Removing container: dapr_placement
✅ Dapr has been removed successfully

sudo dapr init
⌛ Making the jump to hyperspace...
ℹ️ Container images will be pulled from Docker Hub
ℹ️ Installing runtime version 1.7.1
↘ Downloading binaries and setting up components...
Dapr runtime installed to /root/.dapr/bin, you may run the following to add it to your path if you want to run daprd directly:
export PATH=$PATH:/root/.dapr/bin
✅ Downloading binaries and setting up components...
✅ Downloaded binaries and completed components set up.
ℹ️ daprd binary has been installed to /root/.dapr/bin.
ℹ️ dapr_placement container is running.
ℹ️ dapr_redis container is running.
ℹ️ dapr_zipkin container is running.
ℹ️ Use docker ps to check running containers.
✅ Success! Dapr is up and running. To get started, go here: https://aka.ms/dapr-getting-started

running on Ubuntu in WSL

[spottedmahn]

I just tried this & it failed:

$ dapr run --app-id myapp --dapr-http-port 3500
WARNING: no application command found.
❌ stat /home/mdepouw/.dapr/components: no such file or directory

So I re-ran w/ sudo and it succeeded. The .dapr folder must somewhere then, right?

$ sudo dapr run --app-id myapp --dapr-http-port 3500
WARNING: no application command found.
ℹ️ Starting Dapr with id myapp. HTTP Port: 3500. gRPC Port: 34727

[pravinpushkar]

@spottedmahn Can you please check inside the root directory for .dapr folder.
Also did you try dapr init without sudo and check for above directory.

[shubham1172]

Since you are using sudo while init, it installs .dapr in /root/.

sudo dapr uninstall --all # to clean dapr's root installation
dapr init # will create a .dapr folder in /home/$USERNAME

dapr run --app-id myapp # finally test running dapr with your user

[spottedmahn]

Also did you try dapr init without sudo and check for above directory

I did (& I should have mentioned that). I'm running w/ sudo b/c WSL can't communicate w/ my Windows Docker unless I do 🤷‍♂️.

This problem is probably fall-out from that problem ❄⚾(snowball). I'll have to tackle that issue apparently, thanks for your help!