PlantUML Not Rendering in IntelliJ even after installing Graphviz

Question

I have installed the PlantUML Framework in IntelliJ by going to Preferences -> Markdown.  It says it is installed and ready to use.  I have also set GRAPHVIZ_DOT to /usr/local/bin/dot in my .zsh and tried to set it via the IntelliJ command line and set it via IntelliJ's Preferences -> Appearance & Behavior -> Path Variables.  

The error I always get is

Dot Executable: /opt/local/bin/dot

File does not exist

Cannot find Graphviz.  You should try

@startuml

testdot

@enduml

or

java -jar plantuml.jar -testdot

I have also set a symbolic link in /opt/local/bin to point to /usr/local/bin/dot, but still to no avail.  The above tests work via the command line, both in IntelliJ and not.  But not rendering in IntelliJ itself.  Is there a way to uninstall the Framework and try to start over?

What am I missing to get this working?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Can you try to exec :

ls -l /opt/local/bin/dot

and give us the result ?

Maybe there are some right/grant issue on that file.

Comments

Thanks for your response.

Here's the output of 

ls -l /opt/local/bin/dot

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18B Mar 16 10:14 /opt/local/bin/dot@ -> /usr/local/bin/dot

Answer 2

Hey!

Just saw the same error on MacOS and PyCharm. It complains about `/opt/local/bin/dot` but it appears to confuse the install prefix to be `/opt/local` but instead it uses `/usr/local`.

As soon as I put my dot executable to `/usr/local/bin/dot` it started working.

Best Regards!
Standa