Cannot run ionic. receives “No command 'ionic' found”

Question

I want to start using the ionic framework, but unfortunately I\'m already failing on the first step.

I am running Ubuntu 13.04 and I have node v0.10.25 installed. I\

Answer 1

First Solution

I recently ran into this issue and the only solution that worked for me was to uninstall both ionic and cordova.

npm uninstall -g cordova
npm uninstall -g ionic

Then just reinstall

npm install -g cordova
npm install -g ionic 

Second Solution

I ran into this issue again! This time check your environmental variables.

Run npm bin -g and check if the path returned is in your environmental variables. For me, it prompted that it was not found in the terminal output. I added that path to the environmental variables and restarted the terminal. From there everything started to work again. (source)