'Rust installation fails on Linux with error "OS 21"
When I tried to install Rust on my Linux machine this error appeared:error: could not amend shell profile: '/home/$Username/.profile': could not write rcfile file: '/home/$Username/.profile': Is a directory (os error 21)
Solution 1:[1]
Many unix-like systems use the ~/.profile file as a point to place startup code for a user session. There are also other files with a similar function. You should not use that file for any other purpose (like for example it beeing a directory).
Your installation script apparently wants to add some content to that file. This is not unusual, because ~/.profile can be used to set up the search path for programs.
You should rename (or delete) the ~/.profile directory.
I had to delete my .profile folder.
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| Solution 1 | Jakob Stark |