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Deepak Kumar Jain
Deepak Kumar Jain

Reputation: 65

Not able to use npm in WIndows

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

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6853

Answers (4)

divya sunkara
divya sunkara

Reputation: 1

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

Upvotes: 0

Krish Kashiwala
Krish Kashiwala

Reputation: 31

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.

Upvotes: 1

Ikkesh Ramanna
Ikkesh Ramanna

Reputation: 11

Go to your environment variables and on the system variables section remove the ComSpec variable

Upvotes: 1

peteb
peteb

Reputation: 19428

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

Upvotes: 2

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