Error message in cmd.exe
Hi
I'm not able to use npm on Windows 8.1 64bit. It shows the error message as in image link. I have installed nodejs v5.7.1
ERROR MESSAGE:
'CALL "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules
\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" prefix -g' is not recognized as an internal or external com
mand,
operable program or batch file.
3.6.0
Tried changing PATH variables and installing a fresh copy in a different drive also
Please help.
Thanks
Download Cygwin
Launch Cygwin Terminal as Administrator, then run the following command
curl -L "https://npmjs.org/install.sh" | sh
This will do a fresh install of NPM. It could take a while to download but once the install completed if everything was successful, the last thing printed will be It Worked.
EDIT: Changed from npm-windows-upgrade to Cygwin
Go to your environment variables and on the system variables section remove the ComSpec variable
First delete this two folders
C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\npm
C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\npm cache
Then delete the Comspec system variable.
It works definitely on windows machine.
solution is very simple...open advance windows system settings
next....edit environment variable..in that...open system variable..in that...change comSpec value o C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe...then press OK
Related
I installed nodejs in Windows system from official website and npm giving errors:
CALL "C:\Program Files\node js\\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" prefix -g' is not
recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I have given all sorts of paths. Please help me.
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Add the following paths to your PATH environment variable
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm
C:\Program Files\nodejs\
(note that i have windows 10, where your programs are installed can differ as per your windows version)
To permanently set PATH environment variable, follow these steps:
This PC/ My Computer Properties
Advanced System Settings, (right side)
from popup, click environment variable
select PATH environment variable under system variable, (not user variable) then click edit
Click new, and copy and paste one of the path (given) there.
new again and paste second path
to check if its set or not, goto terminal, and type PATH
note: if you type PATH, its value will be displayed, but if you type %PATH% , each of its value will act as a command input to terminal (windows terminal -_-).
Start the process by being an administrator.
Open up your command prompt as an administrator.
And if you are using older version of node say 6.9, please upgrade to 6.10, it may solve your problem.
Node JS and NPM were working well before. Recently I have re-installed the Node JS, NPM and the problem started. After I install a module like an example npm install -g bower, the module gets installed successfully but bower -v gives
'bower' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I have checked the installation path
C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules has all the old installed modules. I have tried to uninstall them and reinstall the modules, but still, I am getting the same error.
Even I have deleted the entire folder and installed all the modules again but the result is the same.
I don't know why I am getting this error after reinstalling NodeJS NPM.
I had this same problem and fixed it by adding the 'npm' directory to my PATH:
Right-click 'My Computer' and go to 'Properties > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables'.
Double click on PATH under the 'User variables for Username' section, and add C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm obviously replacing 'username' with yours. Based on the comments below, you may need to add it to the top/front of your path.
Restart your console window or IDE and you should get a response from the bower command.
I had the same problem as well but installed it globally so the other answers didn't work.
The nodeJS install may not have added npm to your PATH so it's not recognised globally.
Firstly: To figure out if you installed globally or for current user
If there is an npm folder at C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\npm you've installed it for the current user
If there is an npm folder at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm or C:\Program Files(x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm you've installed it globally for all users to access
Secondly: To add it to the Path
Right-click My Computer
Click on properties down the bottom
Click on Advanced System Settings in the left bar
Click on Environment Variables down the bottom
Now depending on whether you installed globally or for the current user will determine which PATH variable you are updating and with what path location
Local
Double click on PATH under 'user variables' section
Add C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\npm without the quotes
Global
Double click on PATH under 'user variables' section
Add C:\Program Files\nodejs without the quotes (or with (x86))
Finally
Close all terminals or programs that aren't able to find npm and open them up again
Run npm config get prefix and check the correct npm path first and append the output to the PATH using command or adding manually.
npm config get prefix
C:\mydev\tools\npm\npm
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\mydev\tools\npm\npm
If the package is successfully installed and still shows the message "'npm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
Click windows start button.
Look for "ALL APPS", you will see Node.js and Node.js Command prompt there.
You can run the Node.js Command prompt as administrator and soon as its run it will show the message "Your environment has been set up for using Node.js 6.3.0 (x64) and npm."
You should probably check if your node/bin directory is in your PATH variable. Look for it where you've been installing these global modules.
I'm not on windows, so I can't tell you the exact command, but you can check these variables navigating to [Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables] or something like this.
I had the same issue in Windows
Two solution worked for me
If you are using bash shell, use npm run
Example : $ npm run ng --version
Use Windows power shell or command prompt
In my case the npm folder was already in the PATH variable.
If after trying everything else, you also still can't make it work, try to delete the folder from the PATH variable and put it at the beginning of the list.
Although I've follow suggestions from:
'node' is not recognized as an internal or an external command, operable program or batch file while using phonegap/cordova
Node.js doesn't recognize system path?
‘ant’ is not recognized as an internal or external command...
I'm having an strange issue: Resume, although node path is list in Path, it doesn't find node.
Workflow:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600] //Running CMD on windows 8.1
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I followed suggestions in SO, adding variable to Environment Variables, and it's display Ok in Path:
C:\Users\myUser>path
PATH=c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs ; (...omitted...) //So folder is there
Next line will fail
C:\Users\myUser>call jasmine-node spec
'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Users\myUser>cd "c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs" //So I move to the folder list before...
But if I move to folder list in Path, then it works OK.
c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs>call jasmine-node spec
> (...omitted...) //Exec OK.
c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs>node
> //Exec OK. Waiting...
It seems contradictory.
The nodejs directory in your PATH isn't recognized because there's a space before the semicolon, so Windows is looking for a directory with a space at the end of the name, which doesn't exist.
Error: 'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command
The problem is may be the node is not installed on the machine in which the application is running.
Then install it and set the environment variable for nodejs.
Or
One more reason can be the nodejs path not set in the environment variable.
Check with the following -
open Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables -> Path
the nodejs path should be available here.
If not available then add the following:
C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs
OR
C:\Program Files\nodejs
Now Re-Run the application and the Error got resolved.
;C:\Program Files\nodejs\
Slash after \nodejs\ worked for me
Usually the environment variables are not effective till a system
Restart.
I suggest a System Restart for all those who face the same issue when doing a clean install.
This worked for me.
In Windows, you need to set node.js folder path into system variables or user variables.
1) open Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables
2) in "User variables" or "System variables" find variable PATH and add node.js folder path as value. Usually it is C:\Program Files\nodejs;. If variable doesn't exists, create it.
3) Restart your IDE or computer.
It is useful add also "npm" and "Git" paths as variable, separated by semicolon.
If you did npm install jasmine-node -g you should just need to do jasmine-node spec (no call prefix).
If you've checked your PATH, and are sure that the path for node is added properly, then you're likely to face the problem while running node OR npm commands with CLI's other than the default command line interface of the operating system (e.g. Git bash in Windows).
The strange part is that you can check for node -v and npm -v in those CLIs, but for some reasons, they don't work well with those commands (especially when combined with install or update).
Possible Solution
Try running node with the default terminal for your OS.
I faced this issue even after adding node.exe to PATH. I wasn't able to run node command at random locations without running command prompt as administrator.
Solution to this issue is, you have to give full access permissions to this node.exe file for different user types. open the properties of node.exe, go to security tabs, check all the security options to the user on your local machine.
after doing this you should be able to access the node.exe file from any location.
things to check:
open CMD>Go to the directory where node.exe resides > type node -v > :
if it shows the version: Please add the same path (like>
PATH=C:\Programfiles\nodejs\;) in the OS path in environment variable (any of the
system or user variable, both work fine)
if it doesn't recognize, please add a variable PATHEXT=.exe; in the environment
variable (The PathExt is an Environment Variable that stores a list of the file
extensions for the operation system to execute) and save them.
Now open a new command prompt window and check.it must work.
After installing nodejs you have to restart your terminal or IDE .
C:\Program Files\nodejs
adding the path without the semi-colon did it for me...
For the issue which is coming "node' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.", I have tried updating the path, but the issue didn't resolve. So I uninstalled and installed node.js and it worked for me.
The error:
node-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command
And the following solution:
Set Environment variable NODE_HOME as C:\Program Files\nodejs
Open cmd window and run:
cd "C:\Program Files\nodejs"
npm install connect
npm install -g appium
It's as simple as adding the location of nodejs (C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs) to your PATH variable and restarting your application with "Run as administrator".
I am using phonegap/cordova.
Everthing is installed propelry i.e cordova, phonegap, ant,sdk,jdk.
But now it says "node is not recogzed as an internal or external command"
In Windows, you need to set node.js folder path into system variables or user variables.
1) open Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables
2) in "User variables" or "System variables" find variable PATH and add node.js folder path as value. Usually it is C:\Program Files\nodejs;. If variable doesn't exists, create it.
3) Restart your IDE or computer.
It is useful add also "npm" and "Git" paths as variable, separated by semicolon.
Great answers, but you could just open the command prompt and type in
SET PATH=C:\Program Files\Nodejs;%PATH%
Worked for me by running the command prompt as an administrator
Add a system variable named "node", with value of your node path.
It solves my problem, hope it helps.
If you install Node using the windows installer, there is nothing you have to do. It adds path to node and npm.
You can also use Windows setx command for changing system environment variables. No reboot is required. Just logout/login. Or just open a new cmd window, if you want to see the changing there.
setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\nodejs"
As you're using Windows, installation should automatically edit the %PATH% variable. Therefore, I suspect you simply need to reboot your system after installing.
Be aware that the Path is case sensitive. I tried setx PATH and it didn't work. In my case it was setx Path. Make sure your CMD run as Administrator.
setx Path "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\nodejs"
Now just restart your command prompt (or restart the PC) and the node command should be available.
Also, try to run nvm on to turn on the node. Worked for me.
If you already have node installed, your path variable is set up and you suddenly start getting this error; try updating to the latest version.
This worked for me going from 6.9.2 to 6.10.
In my case, I'm using NVM and it installed Node v16.2.0, which for some reason has node.exe named as node64.exe. I changed it to node.exe and everything just worked.
In windows search bar type "enviroment variable" open it and set path
C:\Program Files\nodejs;
After adding path in system enviroment variable, If problem still occurs then follow steps
Close cmd and open new cmd, try "node" command.
For VS code close all windows and reopen then try "node" command.
If above steps didn't work then restart system.(this one worked for me)
I tried the solutions above but uninstall and reinstall of nodejs from installer the only one worked for me.
In my case I was using nvm-windows and JetBrains Rider. The required paths were specified in environment variables, but MSBuild wasn't picking them up. Apparently I haven't rebooted my PC after installing NVM. Rebooting the PC fixed the problem.
Please install node through nvm
following command will give you the path where node is installed .
nvm root
Current Root: C:\Users\u725561\AppData\Roaming\nvm
node would be present inside the subdirectory of nvm root .
add the directory C:\Users\u725561\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v12.22.2 to path environment variable.
I had the same problem. My solution was just restart :/
If you have this problem, you should just try restart first...
Try to add the version at the end in the PATH variable
C:\Program Files\nodejs\16.x.x
**Wnidows-11**
control panel---Advance system setting----Enviornment Variable---new----Variable Name(Path) Varibale value(C:\Program Files\nodejs or whichever your path)
Afterwards restart your cli and node -v then boom!!
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Make sure that the node.exe exists in C:\Program Files\nodejs\, then add it to the path. ( See above answers to see how)
I am using chocolate package manger for installing nodejs by running choco install nodejs. Surprisingly in some versions the node.exe was not created in C:\Program Files\nodejs\ !
So make sure the node.exe is in C:\Program Files\nodejs\
I went through all the comments here, none of them worked. I found I had to uninstall and reinstall node.js and then it worked. Probably not the best solution but try this answer at the bottom of the list if all else fails...
For me I just click on empty session and it works for me
I have installed the latest node.js from here . I see the %Path% variables have been set for Node.js. But, When i run node from C:\ , i get a "Node is not an recognized comman". But node command is working fine from "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs" path. Can i not run Node commands from C:\ or Say from an other path if i set the Env variables right? Please help. I am running a Win7 X64.
Thank You,
Faraaz
I had the exact same problem, but in my PATH variable I had: C:\Program Files\nodejs\.
After changing it to C:\Program Files\nodejs I could access it from anywhere.
What happens if you run node --version? I have never tried node.js from windows but if that doesn't work there is something wrong with your paths.
What do you get when you run echo %PATH%?
You should check if the path C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs is present in your %PATH. If not, add it via the system properties (persistent change). In any case, restart your command prompt, it'll reload the %PATH variable. If you're lucky, it should work now :)
Most likely it happens because there is no Node path in your PATH environment variable.
I see two ways to solve this
Just add Node path into the end of PATH.
Reinstall Node as administrator
run 7-zip (or some file manager) with administrator privileges >>
browse to node-installer.msi >> open it, install node >> enjoy
My Sublime was working with Nodejs fine. I could press Alt-R and see the output from Node in Sublime. Then at some point I upgraded Sublime. I now have version 2.02 build 2221
And at some later point I tried Alt-R and got this infamous message
'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command
But it had worked, so what changed?
The steps I took to fix it were to install git bash and then
$ git clone https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs.git
$ cd SublimeText-Nodejs/
$ git checkout 095ba03344
Back in Sublime I clicked Preferences > Browse Packages. This opened up Windows Explorer with the folder:
C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages
I replaced the contents of the Nodejs folder with the git version. Re-started Sublime and then Alt-R sprang back into life.
Other things that turned out to be irrelevant were changing the file Nodejs.sublime-settings and tampering with system environment variables. The only thing that worked was 095ba03344 as described here
https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs/pull/39