How come npm install doesn't work on git bash

Question

I have git bash open and I type in npm install and then it returns:

bash: npm command not found

I don't understand, because I have node.js command prompt and when I type in npm -v then it returns 3.7.3. How come it doesn't work in git?

Answer 1

you need to add nodejs to your path, along with npm

where node

where npm

Answer 2

If you are on Windows, try this: In CMD, go to folder

C:\Program Files or (x86)\nodejs\

Then try the following

C:\Program Files\nodejs>set path=%PATH%;%CD%
C:\Program Files\nodejs>setx path "%PATH%"

It works for me!

Answer 3

The terminal emulator installed by git is named Mintty. To run npm with Mintty, you need to add the path to an environment variable.

Add the following line to your ~\.bash_profile file. If it does not exist, create it.

PATH="/usr/local/share/npm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:$PATH"

When Mintty starts up it will read .bash_profile. You should now be able to run npm from Mintty.

These other questions might be helpful also.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26047/how-to-correctly-add-a-path-to-path https://askubuntu.com/questions/58814/how-do-i-add-environment-variables

Answer 4

I had the same issue and I successed to solve it by changing the git enviornment system variable from C:\Program Files\Git\cmd to C:\Program Files\Git

Hope that will help someone

Answer 5

I had to add node path to system variable AND reboot. For some reason closing and reopening git bash was not enough

Answer 6

Are you on Windows?

If so, can you go to the Git Bash console and run:

echo $PATH

and then check if the node path(e.g. c/Program Files/node ) is there?

If the node path is not there you'll need to add it to the system path variable.

If it's there, can you try to run npm between double quotes?

"npm"