NPM -bash command not found

Question

I am trying to run through nodeschool.io exercises. I am having trouble running their packages.

The first package I installed:

$ npm install -g learnyounode
$ learnyounode

Runs the package with the command learnyounode

Every other package on their site I tried installing and can't run the program with the proper command in the command line, ex:

$ npm install -g functional-javascript-workshop@latest
$ /Users/name/npm/bin/functional-javascript -> /Users/name/npm/lib/node_modules/functional-javascript-workshop/functional-javascript.js
/Users/name/npm/bin/functional-javascript-workshop -> /Users/name/npm/lib/node_modules/functional-javascript-workshop/functional-javascript.js
[email protected] /Users/name/npm/lib/node_modules/functional-javascript-workshop
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

$ functional-javascript-workshop
$ -bash: functional-javascript-workshop: command not found

Here is a link to the package I am trying to install in the example: functional-javascript-workshop

As you can see, I am getting the message -bash - command not found

Looking at other posts with similar problems, I ran the following commands to see my path and where the packages are being saved:

$ which node
$ /usr/local/bin/node

$ which npm
$ /usr/local/bin/npm

$PATH 
$ Users/name/.rbenv/shims:/Users/name/.rbenv/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin: No such file or directory

Steps I tried:

• Uninstall/Reinstall node using brew commands
• global update npm's ($ npm update -g)

It looks like my node-modules are being installed at /Users/name/npm/lib/node_modules I'm not sure though how to give my command line access or a way of looking into that path for the command to start the program.

Solution

The functional-javascript-workshop executable is in /Users/name/npm/bin, which is not in your PATH variable, add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file:

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/name/npm/bin

Then you should be able to run functional-javascript-workshop

Comments

[jasonleonhard]

You can also add this to your bashrc or your bash_profile to get an easier to read version of you paths: alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}' Then all you have to do is type path and you will echo all executable Paths. Other notes: You can prepend your npm command with "sudo", you don't have permission to write to the global module directory.

[jasonleonhard]

the . in front of the name means it is hidden, you can see hidden files in linux or unix terminal by typing ls -a from the correct directory where the file is present, in this case they will be in your home directory so you can type ls -a ~/