Tesseract installed is not installed in default location

I have installed tesseract ( build it from the source ) on my rhel machine as specific user without root access as below

/> ./autogen.sh
/> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/
/> make 
/> make install 

When i try to check if it is installer with tesseract -v . I am getting -bash: /usr/local/bin/tesseract: No such file or directory (because it is installed on /home/xxx/local)which means that machine looking its default location instead of the location that i installed to.

How can i change this default location to the location that i installed tesseract to ?

Thanks in advance

Solution 1:

There is command/script/symlink etc. named as tesseract in your PATH, that points to /usr/local/bin/tesseract (probably some previous not correctly uninstalled version?) Try to investigate with command which tesseract.

To reach your installation use absolute path (as I expect you do not have $HOME/local/ in your PATH) e.g. $HOME/local/bin/tesseract. If you have installed another version of tesseract - expect problems. If you make installation of (any sw) to not standard path (/usr or /usr/local) you have to be very familiar with your OS and have knowledge how to set it up properly.