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

this worked for me. try adding below to the ~/.bash_profile for mac OSX el capitan users:

NPM_PACKAGES="${HOME}/.npm-packages"

NODE_PATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/lib/node_modules:$NODE_PATH"

PATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/bin:$PATH"
# Unset manpath so we can inherit from /etc/manpath via the `manpath`
# command
unset MANPATH # delete if you already modified MANPATH elsewhere in your config
MANPATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man:$(manpath)"

then run source ~/.bash_profile to reload the profile in terminal.

additional info: node v4.3.1