-bash: yarn: command not found even after installing it globally

Question

Mac OS 10.13.6

How did I install yarn

npm install --global yarn

yarn installation path is /Users/useName/.config/yarn

Then ran below command

yarn create react-app app-name

This worked well, but when I'm trying to run yarn add package_name, it's throwing error

bash: yarn: command not found

The weird thing, after closing and opening terminal again under which I had globally ( ? ) installed yarn, the yarn command is not found.

Solution 1

If you are using nodenv and yarn is not working try a simple

$nodenv rehash

after that yarn should work

Solution 2

try export PATH=~/.yarn/bin:$PATH into .profile !**

or

try: If you are on the bash try adding alias yarn=~/.yarn/bin/yarn.js

We no longer support global installation of Create React App.

Please remove any global installs with one of the following commands:
- npm uninstall -g create-react-app
- yarn global remove create-react-app

The latest instructions for creating a new app can be found here:

create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started

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Try this Stackoverflow :)

Solution 3

Global packages won't be installed in a user account. The path you mention is for configuration. Try to find where Yarn was really installed or just try export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH (that's where Yarn is on my machine).

Comments

[vikramvi]

This solution didn't work for me, I've edited question and added yarn directory on Mac

[ullas kunder]

Did you tried installing yarn through homebrew package manager brew install yarn

[ullas kunder]

what does yarn --version says

[ullas kunder]

did you do yarn init

[vikramvi]

I don't want to install using brew but with npm way. yarn --version just gives error message "command not found"

[ullas kunder]

that's confirm that yarn is not installed properly

[vikramvi]

strangely after installing yarn, I could able to run yarn create react-app appName without any failure. How is that possible ? I mean 1st time installation is success and later it didn't work at all ?

[vikramvi]

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

[vikramvi]

can you clarify how did you install yarn & which OS you've ?

[nydame]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm using MacOS 10.15.7. I installed yarn with Homebrew.

[vikramvi]

Which OS are you using ? I'm on Mac and I don't see ~/.profile there.

[Ti Hausmann]

I'm on macOS 11.2.3, I had to create ~/.profile too