No command 'ember' found

3
votes

Seems like I messed up with my ember-cli install. I had installed the npm using sudo, but after reading some issues with ember-cli and sudo on npm I went for uninstall and reinstall following the instruction here https://gist.github.com/isaacs/579814.

Now I have installed ember-cli through npm install -g ember-cli but when I do an ember new <name> I get

No command 'ember' found, did you mean:

Command 'enber' from package 'asn1c' (universe)

ember: command not found

I can do which node

$ which node

/home/[user]/local/bin/node

and which npm

$ which npm

/home/[user]/local/bin/npm

, but I can see that ember exists in the following path that is installed:

npm install -g ember-cli

/home/[user]/npm/bin/ember -> /home/[user]/npm/lib/node_modules/ember-cli/bin/ember

Any ideas how to get ember command working?

3
ubuntunpmember-cli.bash-profile

3 Answers

3
votes

You need to make sure /home/[user]/npm/bin is in your shell's path. You can echo $PATH to see if it's included.

For Bash:

Add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile

PATH=/home/[user]/npm/bin:$PATH

And then restart your terminal or run source ~/.bashrc

For ZSH:

Add this to your '.zshrc`

path+=('/home/[user]/npm/bin')

And then restart your terminal or run source ~/.zshrc

You will need to replace [user] in the paths with your user name on your computer.

2
votes

Another approach is to use nvm. It gives you power to easily manage your node.js/npm versions without sudo and also manage installed packages. One drawback (or maybe not?) is that you have to install packages for each node version separately.

1
votes

The accepted answer works. Where I disagree is with using ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. ~/.bashrc is used for only non-login shells and ~/.bash_profile is used for login shells.

I advise you export to $PATH in ~/.profile which will be available to the whole desktop session.

Therefore, you should add something like

export PATH=$PATH:/home/[user]/npm/bin

to ~/.profile for best results