Recently I have changed OS to Linux Ubuntu for development. I have installed Node.js & NPM to use with Yeoman, after installing NPM I followed the official documentation on permissions Docs. As my displayed path was just /usr i followed Option 2. Everything went well and I proceeded to install Yeoman, Bower & Grunt and everything was fine. However Yeoman, Bower & Grunt do not work in another terminal window. each time I open a terminal I must follow Option 2 again before I can commence usage. Why isn’t my $PATH staying updated? What am I doing wrong?
Also, while im asking. NPM is running like a snail while installing, it took me probably around 5 hours to install Yeoman, Bower, Grunt & Webapp-gen and it took around a hour to make a new project yo webapp last night. Anyone know why this may be? it's still running like a snail today - Internet & hardware usage are all normal and in the green, git, composer, bower etc are all running at normal speed. Its just NPM.
makka@ML:~$ node --version && npm --version && git --version && yo --version && bower --version && grunt --version v5.4.1 3.5.3 git version 2.5.0 yo: command not found makka@ML:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games makka@ML:~$ cd //usr/local && ls -la total 40 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:49 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 18 00:14 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 01:22 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:49 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:49 games drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:49 include drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 21 17:00 lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 17 20:27 man -> share/man drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:49 sbin drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 21 17:00 share drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:49 src makka@ML://usr/local$ ls -la ~/ total 188 drwxr-xr-x 23 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 16:19 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 17 20:31 .. drwx------ 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 02:57 .adobe -rw------- 1 makka makka 3012 Jan 18 16:46 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 makka makka 220 Jan 17 20:31 .bash_logout -rw-rw-r-- 1 makka makka 43 Jan 18 05:01 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 makka makka 3771 Jan 17 20:31 .bashrc drwx------ 22 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 03:59 .cache drwxrwxr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 01:20 .composer drwx------ 24 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 05:46 .config drwxr-xr-x 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 05:48 Desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 makka makka 25 Jan 17 20:56 .dmrc drwxr-xr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 Documents drwxr-xr-x 4 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 02:16 Downloads -rw-r--r-- 1 makka makka 8980 Jan 17 20:31 examples.desktop drwx------ 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 16:19 .gconf drwx------ 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 00:01 .gnome -rw------- 1 makka makka 604 Jan 18 16:19 .ICEauthority drwx------ 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 .local drwx------ 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 02:57 .macromedia drwx------ 4 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 23:31 .mozilla drwxr-xr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 Music drwxrwxr-x 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 02:58 .node-gyp -rw-rw-r-- 1 makka makka 23 Jan 18 04:55 .node_repl_history drwxr-xr-x 823 makka makka 36864 Jan 18 02:58 .npm drwxrwxr-x 5 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 00:48 .npm-global -rw------- 1 makka makka 21 Jan 18 05:19 .npmrc drwxr-xr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 Pictures drwx------ 3 makka makka 4096 Jan 18 00:01 .pki -rw-r--r-- 1 makka makka 675 Jan 17 20:31 .profile drwxr-xr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 Public -rw-r--r-- 1 makka makka 0 Jan 17 20:57 .sudo_as_admin_successful drwxr-xr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 Templates drwxr-xr-x 2 makka makka 4096 Jan 17 20:56 Videos -rw------- 1 makka makka 47 Jan 18 16:19 .Xauthority -rw------- 1 makka makka 1576 Jan 18 16:19 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 makka makka 2804 Jan 18 16:16 .xsession-errors.old makka@ML://usr/local$ npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global' makka@ML://usr/local$ export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH makka@ML://usr/local$ source ~/.profile makka@ML://usr/local$ node --version && npm --version && git --version && yo --version && bower --version && grunt --version v5.4.1 3.5.3 git version 2.5.0 1.6.0 1.7.2 grunt-cli v0.1.13 makka@ML://usr/local$ echo $PATH /home/makka/.npm-global/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games Many thanks, Regards, Matt
1 Answer
Looks like you aren't putting your export command into ~/.profile.
echo export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH > ~/.profile source ~/.profile 
