Bower: “command not found” after installation

Question

I seem to be getting the following when I execute npm install bower -g

/usr/local/share/npm/bin/bower -> /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_module         


        

Answer 1

As of September 2016, the .pkg installer from nodejs.org arranges for installed packages to be under $HOME/.npm-packages/lib/node-modules, with symlinks in ~/.npm-packages/bin:

$ bower install
-bash: bower: command not found
$ which bower
$ export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-packages/bin
$ which bower
/Users/dmoles/.npm-packages/bin/bower