Global Node modules not installing correctly. Command not found

Question

I am having a problem installing global node modules and everything I find online says the solve is just adding -g. Which is not the problem. I believe it\'s a linking issue

Answer 1

In my case, The NODE_PATH environment variable was empty. Check whether it is empty-

echo $NODE_PATH

if the NODE_PATH is empty. Then change ~/.bash_profile and add NODE_PATH

nano ~/.bash_profile
export NODE_PATH=`npm root -g`
source ~/.bash_profile

Now install npm modules again and check whether that is being installed on the path npm root -g