osrm-extract: command not found

I've installed Ubuntu 16 on a VMware virtual machine. I've spent several days trying to figure out what I've missed or misunderstood.

When I run the osrm-extract on the north-american dataset, I get

"osrm-extract: command not found"

Below is the terminal output relevant to the error I am getting.

jim@jim-virtual-machine:~/osrm-backend/build$ ls
cmake                  libosrm_customize.a           osrm-contract
CMakeCache.txt         libosrm_extract.a             osrm-customize
CMakeFiles             libosrm_partition.a           osrm-datastore
cmake_install.cmake    libosrm.pc                    osrm-extract
compile_commands.json  libosrm_store.a               osrm-partition
include                libosrm_update.a              osrm-routed
lib                    Makefile                      src
libosrm.a              north-america-latest.osm.pbf  unit_tests
libosrm_contract.a     osrm-components
jim@jim-virtual-machine:~/osrm-backend/build$ osrm-extract north-america-       latest.osm.pbf -p profiles/car.lua
osrm-extract: command not found

My goal is to run data analysis relating to food security issues within North American cities. I want to run hundreds of thousands of routing queries. This is why I need the whole North American dataset. I want to do comparisons between various cities. My understanding of GIS & node theory is sufficient and I'm a pretty good PHP coder, however my Linux skills/understanding are marginal. Any help would be appreciated. If someone has a VMware machine instance which I can get a copy of, that would also be a solution.

Solution

You need to prepend ./ to run a local binary. I can recommend http://ryanstutorials.net/linuxtutorial/ as a basic introduction into Bash CLI usage.

For your purpose it might be easier to run your queries against our public demo server (only for non-commercial use) https://router.project-osrm.org

Preparing the Na dataset locally will need about 64gb of memory and 200gb of disk space.