# Problems setting up Liquibase CLI in Windows, need some help **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/problems-setting-up-liquibase-cli-in-windows-need-some-help/6122 "2021-11-02T17:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jwsql2019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@jwsql2019](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/jwsql2019)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/problems-setting-up-liquibase-cli-in-windows-need-some-help/6122/1 "2021-11-02T17:49:45Z")
When I setup Liquibase CLI in Windows other than version 3.6.3 , I get a “The system cannot find the path specified.” message. Version 3.5.5 also seems to work without issue but nothing higher than 3.6.3 so I am just going to reference 3.6.3 in this post. I get this same issue on my work laptop and on my personal laptop for any liquibase version not 3.6.3. I have download the ZIP asset from a GitHub release for say 4.3.3, I unzip the file, set a LIQUIBASE\_HOME environment variable to the un-zipped version 4.3.3, I have a %LIQUIBASE\_HOME% path in my System PATH variable, I restart (its probably not needed but I do it to be safe), open up CMD prompt, type in ‘liquibase --version’ and I get the “The system cannot find the path specified.” message on my work PC. I have JAVA\_HOME setup to JAVA 11 JDK setup already. I have used Liquibase 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 previously so I have not used the Windows Installer EXE but on my new personal PC that’s never had liquibase setup before. I setup JAVA\_HOME to JAVA 11 JDK and then used the Liquibase 4.3.3 Windows Installer EXE to setup liquibase. The install completed, it setup a ‘C:\Program Files\Liquibase’ location to my User PATH variable, I did a restart of the PC, then opened up a CMD prompt, type in ‘liquibase --version’ and I get the “The system cannot find the path specified.” message. So is liquibase not working from the Command Prompt in Windows starting at a specific version? This is really frustrating that Liquibase commands no longer work from the command prompt when setup to a newer version of Liquibase. I usually check the validity of change log files that our services/developers are using outside of the development project since it was pretty quick to test deployment and changes to any change log files using liquibase commands from the command line. * * * On a side note, I have WSL1 setup (to due WSL2’s weird VPN issues) on my work PC and when I have ‘LIQUIBASE\_HOME’ system variable set in Windows System Environment settings to Liquibase 4.3.3, like I said earlier ‘liquibase --version’ command does not work but from WSL Terminal I can run ‘liquibase --version’ and get back the version information. I don’t know why it seems to work in WSL Terminal but not in Command Prompt when the Window System Environment variable is set. Then when I use a Liquibase command from the WSL Terminal pointing to a change log file within a WSL directory location to deploy changes to a database, Liquibase throws an error stating that the changelog file that I specified does not exist. Yet it does exist and the change log file has all read permissions enabled. So I can’t get any further using WSL either. But I would really like to just get the Liquibase CLI commands working at the normal Command Line or PowerShell prompts. Thanks for any help in advance. ---
**Author:** ![aditi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.liquibase.org/aditi/32/356_2.png) [@aditi](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/aditi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/problems-setting-up-liquibase-cli-in-windows-need-some-help/6122/2 "2021-11-04T19:07:58Z")
Hi @jwsql2019 , I have a few questions for you: 1. Are you the Administrator on this machine? 2. Can you try installing Liquibase in a different location, for example in your user directory? 3. Can you run `java -version` from your command prompt and confirm the java version?