To start out, I've already tried solving using the following resources:
Node package ( Grunt ) installed but not available
http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/install-gruntjs-osx-10-9-mavericks/
None of the above worked.
I'm trying to install grunt on my Mac (running 10.10.3), and after the npm install command completes, the grunt --version command returns 'command not found'.
Here's the output of my terminal window:
$ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
/Me/local/bin/grunt -> /Me/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt
grunt-cli#0.1.13 /Me/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli
├── resolve#0.3.1
├── nopt#1.0.10 (abbrev#1.0.5)
└── findup-sync#0.1.3 (lodash#2.4.1, glob#3.2.11)
$ grunt --version
-bash: grunt: command not found
My PATH variable:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:b0VIM 7.3:/usr/local/git/bin:usr/local/bin/
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I run the following command in my bash and I get the related results:
merianos#merianos-desktop:~$ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
/usr/local/bin/grunt -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt
grunt-cli#0.1.13 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli
├── resolve#0.3.1
├── nopt#1.0.10 (abbrev#1.0.7)
└── findup-sync#0.1.3 (lodash#2.4.2, glob#3.2.11)
and
merianos#merianos-desktop:~$ grunt
/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
I also have try to install bower and gulp but again, when I try to execute them, I get a message related to the grunt above.
Can someone please help me ?
Just to know, I just installed Ubuntu 15.04. I don't know if that helps :)
Ubuntu package nodejs provide a binary as a /usr/bin/nodejs, not a /usr/bin/node, so most of cli tools can't find it. To solve the problem you need to make a symlink:
sudo ln -sT /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
npm knows that grunt is installed globally, so why isn't it found?
$ npm install -g grunt
... installs ...
$ npm list -g | grep grunt
│ ├─┬ gruntfile-editor#0.2.0
│ ├─┬ gruntfile-editor#0.2.0
├─┬ grunt#0.4.5
│ ├─┬ grunt-legacy-log#0.1.1
│ ├── grunt-legacy-util#0.2.0
$ grunt
-bash: grunt: command not found
I assume because it's put it somewhere that is not on my PATH.
Why doesn't npm just put it somewhere that is on my PATH by default, like /usr/local/bin?
UPDATE: Weirdly, I get the same grunt: command not found error even after I do npm install grunt to run it locally. What am I doing wrong? There is a Gruntfile.js in my repo.
The package "grunt" is the task runner itself whereas the "grunt-cli" package is the command line interface that includes the grunt executable. You can make sure that it is installed to the correct path.
If you do npm install grunt-cli it still would not work because this would be installed to node_modules in the corresponding directory which is most likely not on your path. However, when you use grunt from the globally installed CLI tool it will look for an installation of grunt that is local to that project as well as the Gruntfile.js
what you have to do is
install grunt-cli globally:
$ npm install grunt-cli -g
install grunt local in your dependencies (optionally save the dependency to your package.json):
$ npm install grunt --save
For me there was another thing missing, adding the path to NPM's folder in Window's env variables
Go to System (My computer->Properties)
Advanced System Settings
In Advanced tab, 'Environment Variables'
Under User variables, choose Path, then Edit
Add this alongside the others you have: '%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm'
Hope this helps, g'luck
My node suddenly stopped working so I removed everything and installed node with homebrew.
Now I cant install grunt, nodemon, bower etc.
Pers-MacBook-Air:backendMD perstrom$ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
Password:
/Users/perstrom/.node/bin/grunt -> /Users/perstrom/.node/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt
grunt-cli#0.1.13 /Users/perstrom/.node/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli
├── resolve#0.3.1
├── nopt#1.0.10 (abbrev#1.0.5)
└── findup-sync#0.1.3 (lodash#2.4.1, glob#3.2.11)
Pers-MacBook-Air:backendMD perstrom$ grunt --version
bash: grunt: command not found
Pers-MacBook-Air:backendMD perstrom$
What can be wrong? How do I debug this?
Try to expend your path (make sure this folder contains the bins):
export PATH=/Users/perstrom/.node/bin:$PATH
I'm using NVM to avoid using sudo to install things globally. It works fine for everything from Bower, to Grunt, etc. However, when I do npm install -g express-generator it doesnt work. For example, heres what I get when I globally install Bower:
npm install -g bower
/Users/jrdillon522/.node/bin/bower -> /Users/jrdillon522/.node/lib/node_modules/bower/bin/bower
bower#1.3.12 /Users/jrdillon522/.node/lib/node_modules/bower
├── is-root#1.0.0
...
...
...
├── update-notifier#0.2.0 (semver-diff#0.1.0, string-length#0.1.2, latest-version#0.2.0, configstore#0.3.1)
├── mout#0.9.1
├── handlebars#2.0.0 (optimist#0.3.7, uglify-js#2.3.6)
├── inquirer#0.7.1 (figures#1.3.3, mute-stream#0.0.4, through#2.3.6, readline2#0.1.0, lodash#2.4.1, cli-color#0.3.2, rx#2.3.14)
└── insight#0.4.3 (object-assign#1.0.0, async#0.9.0, chalk#0.5.1, os-name#1.0.1, lodash.debounce#2.4.1, tough-cookie#0.12.1, configstore#0.3.1, inquirer#0.6.0)
Works fine right? When I install the Express Generator I get the classic error:
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
So I run sudo npm install -g express-generator. Heres what I get then:
sudo npm install -g express-generator
Password:
/Users/myName/.node/bin/express -> /Users/myName/.node/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express
express-generator#4.9.0 /Users/myName/.node/lib/node_modules/express-generator
├── mkdirp#0.5.0 (minimist#0.0.8)
└── commander#1.3.2 (keypress#0.1.0)
➜ ~ express -v
zsh: command not found: express
➜ ~
Why??
It looks like your bin path (/Users/myName/.node/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express) isn't added to your environment.
If you modify your .bashrc file, add the following line to the bottom of your file to make things work as expected:
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/myName/.node/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin
Then retry the installation.
Edit: Adding ~/npm/bin to path with PATH=$PATH:~/npm/bin helped, thank you Joachim Isaksson
EDIT:
Seems like i cannot install any packages with npm. After sucessfully installing them, i cannot use them with the assigned commands in the package. "No command '' found".
node -v
v0.11.14
npm -v
2.0.0
At ubuntu machine
It seems like i cannot install the resume-cli module, found here with using npm. Even though it installs without errors, it does not understand the basic commands after installing. Could it be a problem with the warning, showed under?
sudo npm install -g resume-cli
i get
npm WARN engine html-to-text#0.0.8: wanted: {"node":"~0.8.0"} (current: {"node":"0.10.32","npm":"1.4.28"})
Then
/home/bjornasm/npm/bin/resume -> /home/bjornasm/npm/lib/node_modules/resume-cli/index.js
resume-cli#0.3.10 /home/bjornasm/npm/lib/node_modules/resume-cli
├── cli-spinner#0.1.5
├── char-spinner#1.0.1
├── commander#2.3.0
├── colors#0.6.2
├── open#0.0.5
├── chalk#0.4.0 (has-color#0.1.7, ansi-styles#1.0.0, strip-ansi#0.1.1)
├── async#0.9.0
├── read#1.0.5 (mute-stream#0.0.4)
├── terminal-menu#0.3.2 (inherits#2.0.1, charm#0.1.2, resumer#0.0.0)
├── superagent#0.18.2 (extend#1.2.1, qs#0.6.6, methods#1.0.1, cookiejar#2.0.1, component-emitter#1.1.2, reduce-component#1.0.1, mime#1.2.11, debug#1.0.4, readable-stream#1.0.27-1, form-data#0.1.3, formidable#1.0.14)
├── resume-to-text#0.0.15 (mustache#0.8.2, html-to-text#0.0.8)
├── resume-to-html#0.0.21 (gravatar#1.0.6, resume-to-markdown#0.0.14, marked#0.3.2, mustache#0.8.2, lodash#2.4.1)
├── jsonlint#1.6.2 (nomnom#1.8.0, JSV#4.0.2)
└── resume-schema#0.0.15 (z-schema#2.4.10)
Then when running the following
resume --help
i get
resume: command not found
Anyone familiar with this?
Below are the steps to install a given release from source
NOTE - this installs nodejs which gives you both node as well as npm, they come together per release.
to start fresh remove prior node.js and npm installs as well as these :
sudo mv ~/.npmrc ~/.npmrc_ignore
sudo mv ~/.npm ~/.npm_ignore
sudo mv ~/tmp ~/tmp_ignore
sudo mv ~/.npm-init.js ~/.npm-init.js_ignore
to install nodejs and npm as yourself NOT root do these commands (OSX/linux) :
export NODE_PARENT=${HOME}/bin_0_10_32
mkdir ${NODE_PARENT}
download source from : http://nodejs.org/download/
cd node-v0.xxxx
./configure --prefix=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs
make -j8
make install # IMPORTANT this is NOT using sudo
# not wanted since installing into $USER owned $NODE_PARENT
which puts it into dir defined by above --prefix
export PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/bin:$PATH
define environment variable NODE_PATH so node can find dir for modules otherwise
npm install xxx will put newly installed module into current dir :
export NODE_PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/lib/node_modules
when you use syntax : npm install -g some_cool_module
the -g for global installs it into dir $NODE_PATH and not your $PWD
nodejs install gives you npm as well :
ls -la ${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/bin
Subsequent modules you install using global flag -g will automagically put their ~binaries~ into above bin dir ... like browserify
Now put above three export xxx=yyy
commands into your ~/.bashrc or some such so your environment is setup