karma command not found when karma already installed

Question

I used node.js to install karma. My first try failed when running the following command on Terminal:

npm install -g karma

That failed so I dec

Answer 1

In your ~/.bash_profile (or similar) amend your PATH to include npm-installed binaries:

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/share/npm/bin"

I had this very same issue, and found this solution to be less time-consuming and impactful than completely re-installing node.

EDIT this has also worked for others in bash_profile

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/karma/bin" 

Answer 2

I had to add export PATH="$PATH":/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/karma/bin after installing karma with sudo npm install karma.

hope this helps.

Answer 3

When upgrading from Karma 0.10 to 0.12 the link to the karma executable is removed.

You can get it back with

cd node_modules/.bin
ln -s ../karma/bin/karma karma

Answer 4

Just go to test.sh:

Find: $BASE_DIR/../node_modules/karma/bin/karma start $BASE_DIR/../config/karma.conf.js $*

Replace with: /usr/local/bin/karma start $BASE_DIR/../config/karma.conf.js $*

Or: karma start $BASE_DIR/../config/karma.conf.js $*

Answer 5

It is recommended to install karma with its Command-Line-Interface (karma-cli) which will take care of fetching the appropriate karma. You can also install a different local version specific to each project you're working on and karma-cli will pick the appropriate one.

From the karma installation page:

Typing ./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start sucks so you might find it useful to install karma-cli globally:

npm install -g karma-cli

Now, check that karma was installed by typing:

karma start

You can also check that karma was installed by going to this directory:

cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/karma

Good luck!

Answer 6

Don't need to completely uninstall node.js

Just

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/

Then
install node.js

Then
reinstall karma

This worked for me.