vala: command not found

Have You tried accessing the binary with the full path?

Maybe Your $PATH variable doesn't contain the default paths? echo $PATH should give something like:

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

If it's empty, You may set the PATH variable with this command

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"

On CentOS possible default full paths are:

/usr/bin/vala - from package: vala

You may install the required package with command yum install {package}
Error in other languages:
vala: bevel nie gevind nie
vala: comandă negăsită
vala: comando não encontrado
vala: commande introuvable
vala: command not found
vala: käsku ei ole
vala: không tìm thấy lệnh
vala: komanda nerasta
vala: Kommando nicht gefunden.
vala: kommandot finns inte
vala: komut yok
vala: nie znaleziono polecenia
vala: níor aimsíodh an t-ordú
vala: no se encontró la orden
vala: no s'ha trobat l'ordre
vala: opdracht niet gevonden
vala: parancs nem található
vala: perintah tidak ditemukan
vala: príkaz nenájdený
vala: příkaz nenalezen
vala: команда не найдена
vala: командата не е открита
vala: 命令找不到
vala: コマンドが見つかりません