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stud91
stud91

Reputation: 1854

PhoneGap Installation : npm command not found

I have a Mac OS X version 10.9.1. I tried installing PhoneGap via the command line

$ sudo npm install -g phonegap

BUT i get the following error:

sudo: npm: command not found

Upvotes: 1

Views: 21360

Answers (6)

Sukanta Saha
Sukanta Saha

Reputation: 1

you are getting this error because you do not have NODE packages installed in your machine. Download and install it before running npm install command from below link https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Upvotes: 0

fakenickels
fakenickels

Reputation: 171

If your npm isn't installed in /usr/local/bin, you must create a symbolic link for it first.

$ sudo ln -s $(which npm) /usr/local/bin/npm
$ sudo npm install -g phonegap

Upvotes: 1

treeFan
treeFan

Reputation: 1242

In one of the answers to the question suggesting chmod -R 777 - I must warn against using.


chmod -R 777 /usr/local/bin


This means that all files in bin and its subdirectories will be readable, writable and executable by the whole world.



If one did so by accident, as minimum change it to

chmod -R 755 /usr/local/bin

and then think closer about how the permissions should be set after that.

Upvotes: 0

errakeshpd
errakeshpd

Reputation: 2552

The phonegap is installed using the node package manager(NPM), the package is not available on your pc , so you need to install it.

use this command to install,

sudo apt-get install npm

It will fix the issue. then do the installation command .

Upvotes: 1

Boobalan
Boobalan

Reputation: 823

If u already install Node package and still getting the same error, then check the bin (/usr/local/bin) folder permission.

If you don't have enough permission then change folder the permission using below command.

sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/local/bin

I have shared my whole experience while installing the phone gap is here

https://sites.google.com/site/greateindiaclub/mobil-apps/ios/phonegapinstalltionwithnodejs

Upvotes: 0

Grey
Grey

Reputation: 263

You need to have the Node Package Manager installed on your system.

https://npmjs.org/

This requires you to install Node.js

Upvotes: 6

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