"flutter doctor" not working

Question

I've downloaded Flutter SDK as mentioned on https://flutter.io/setup-windows/ and also extracted it. Now when I try to run any Flutter command on the flutter_console.bat or any other CLI the prompts starts blinking forever and nothing happens! I've set the path correctly. Did not find any help from web!

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 09:53

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Try running the flutter_console.bat as Administrator

answered Jun 08 '18 at 09:53

Jayden

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how to run this on the windows machine? – Jitesh Mohite May 05 '19 at 15:26

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '19 at 20:37

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If you delete cache folder under bin to solve some installation issues, this cause a endless loop in flutter doctor. This was my case.

answered Feb 21 '19 at 20:37

DiRiNoiD

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This was the solution for me. Go and delete: `C:/flutter/bin/cache` – carloswm85 Jul 04 '23 at 15:49

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered May 31 '18 at 22:27

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I had the same issue when my flutter directory wasn't located directly in my C:/ drive ("C:/flutter")

answered May 31 '18 at 22:27

Matt Goodis

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 09 '21 at 01:50

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I hope you have installed plug-in of flutter and dart for the working of flutter doctor you need to create system environment variables of - flutter, git , cmd and powershell

like show in image just copy paste path of **your path may different **

example:

C:\flutter\bin
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe

edited Mar 09 '21 at 01:50

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answered Mar 04 '21 at 05:38

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 04 '18 at 10:23

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Encountered the same issue on windows. Try extracting the flutter folder in this path C:\Users\YourAccountName\AppData\Local. Then edit your environment variable and add C:\Users\YourAccountName\AppData\Local\flutter\bin. This solved the issue for me.

answered Jun 04 '18 at 10:23

Emeka David Chukumah

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 22 '18 at 11:28

I had the same problem, reason was our proxy. I unplugged the network cable and used mobile network of my smartphone via usb host function, that worked for me. After checking and configuring with flutter doctor every following attempt to start flutter doctor or flutter help was successful even with "normal" network.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 08 '20 at 08:00

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I extracted flutter to C:\Program Files\ and had same problem. Running command prompt as Administrator did the trick for me. Or extract flutter to another dir where you don't need admin rights.

answered Oct 08 '20 at 08:00

goofy

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 09 '21 at 04:49

First, if in your system there is no git installed then first install git.

For my case, I just deleted the whole flutter folder. Download again, extract the folder, cut and paste to the c drive and then update both user variable path and system variable path. I added "C:\flutter\bin" this path inside user variable path and system variable path. Also make sure that:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe

these paths are exist inside the system variable path. Finally I run "flutter doctor" and successfully it run. I also check "dart --version" and there is no problem.

(if you have any confusion about user variable path and system variable path then simply press widow button the type "env" then you will see "Edit the system Environment variables" then press enter and at the last you will see "Environment variables" clik on it and you will see 2 option for variable. One for user variable and another for system variable. select "path" for both and edit.)

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 26 '22 at 15:19

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My answer is somehow different, although I was using Visual Studio Code, I didn't find the flutter doctor option after pressing ctrl+shift+p. I solved this issue after finding out, that I didn't choose the trusted system of Visual Studio.

answered Feb 26 '22 at 15:19

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 28 '22 at 07:35

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open your path /flutter/bin
then delete cache folder
open terminal
flutter doctor -v

This will fix all problem.

answered Jul 28 '22 at 07:35

Kareem Ahmed

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 28 '22 at 17:49

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you can just do this> navigate to flutter bin cd C:\flutter\bin C:\flutter\bin> flutter doctor

answered Aug 28 '22 at 17:49

Samuel Clinton

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 06 '22 at 05:19

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I installed fresh right now and if you run flutter doctor with console under administrator rights it works for me. If not I have the same behavior as described in your post.

answered Sep 06 '22 at 05:19

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 16 '23 at 11:44

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I had initially installed the flutter SDK files at C:/Program Files, and instead had to move them to C:/. So once the Path was C:/flutter/bin for the environment variable, it worked properly.

answered Apr 16 '23 at 11:44

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 07 '23 at 02:31

I encountered this problem on macOS, when I use the

flutter doctor

command, there is no response, then I try the

flutter doctor -v

command, and I get an insufficient permission prompt in the

~/.pub-cache

folder.

After I authorize the read and write permissions, the problem is solved.

You can try this method.

score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Aug 25 '23 at 09:38

In my case, the problem was that I first unpacked flutter to the root of the C drive, and then moved it to another folder. When unpacking to the root of the C drive, the folder was created under administrator rights, and after moving the cmd without administrator rights, it did not have access. In my case, I just repacked flutter again, right into the folder

score -1 · Answer 16 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 14:54

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For some reason the latest version that I installed did not work! Installing lower version with same configuration worked!

answered Jun 08 '18 at 14:54

Deepam Goel

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Don't think using an older version is really a good solution. – Jayden Nov 18 '18 at 01:02

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