angular-cli: Can't install angular-cli globally

npm install -g -f angular-cli @karthikkavin

Try to clean cache npm cache clean, uninstall angular-cli npm uninstall -g angular-cli & install again npm install -g angular-cli

@neilhem The following worked for me npm cache clean npm uninstall -g angular-cli npm install -g -f angular-cli ng --help

Thats it.

Hello I just installed with -f or --force flag and it worked. I should close this and thank you all for your time. 😃

Has anyone used yarn package manager. Its fast, easy, understandable (meaningful). You can :

1. Install yarn npm install yarn -g
2. use yarn to install angular-cli yarn global add angular-cli.

Done thats its it worked for me.

+1. This doesn’t work for me in Ubuntu 14.04 as well. Somehow ng serve still serves with old version (by checking the webpack its running). To get my app working temporarily, I do.

• Clean uninstall of angular-cli, like sudo npm uninstall -g angular-cli
• Clone this angular-cli repo,
• Go to the angular-cli repo folder, and run npm link,
• Go to my project folder
• Run npm link angular-cli
• Now to run ng command, I use ./node_modules/angular-cli/bin/ng from my project folder

Sorry @neilhem that doesn’t work. 😦

Hi, I’m pretty new to angular, but just in case, to install angular-cli on ubuntu this worked for me:

1. cd /usr/local/bin (which is my “npm bin -g” directory)
2. sudo npm install -g angcli

Ubuntu 16.04LTS Node v4.2.6 NPM 3.5.2

I have tried so many solutions but after all

👍 This works for me

npm install -g -f angular-cli

-f - Forcefully we have to install with its dependencies

Hi all, I had the same issue to install angular-cli and a little bit of Linux knowledge fixed my issue.

For some reason I don know, the /usr/local/lib/node_modules folder was the only one on 400 permission and owned by root.

solution was change the folder’s owner

sudo chown -R ericluque:admin /usr/local/lib/node_modules

PS: I’m on Mac OSX High Sierra

Find the location of nodejs via where is nodejs then do,

ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs ~/bin/node (yes, no sudo there); replace /usr/bin/nodejs with the path your nodejs is at.

Thanks @CanKer

Just do the following steps:

• sudo chmod 777 -R /usr/local/bin

• npm install -g -f @angular/cli

Mute it

Hi,

A quick note to share that I uninstalled @angular/cli using: sudo npm uninstall -g @angular/cli

Then, following option 2 in this article I created a hidden directory in my user directory mkdir ~/.npm-global

edited ~/.profile to add ~/.npm-global/bin to $PATH export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH

and ran source ~/.profile

After such steps I was able to install @angular/cli with npm install -g @angular/cli without any issues.

Thanks @neilhem

sudo is a bad idea. I assume in some systems node requires root access to install local or global node packages by default. Consider this article or install node via nvm, version for windows or version for linux and macOS. Also you can use package managers like Homebrew, Scoop or Chocolatey to install Nodejs

C:\Users\499705\Desktop\angular cli>npm install -g angular-cli@latest npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\ng -> C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\no de_modules\angular-cli\bin\ng

node-sass@4.5.0 install C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angul ar-cli\node_modules\node-sass node scripts/install.js

Cached binary found at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\node-sass\4.5.0 \win32-ia32-48_binding.node

node-sass@4.5.0 postinstall C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\a ngular-cli\node_modules\node-sass node scripts/build.js

Binary found at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\nod e_modules\node-sass\vendor\win32-ia32-48\binding.node Testing binary Binary has a problem: Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. \?\C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\no de-sass\vendor\win32-ia32-48\binding.node at Error (native) at Object.Module._extensions…node (module.js:597:18) at Module.load (module.js:487:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3) at Module.require (module.js:497:17) at require (internal/module.js:20:19) at module.exports (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular- cli\node_modules\node-sass\lib\binding.js:19:10) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angu lar-cli\node_modules\node-sass\lib\index.js:14:35) at Module._compile (module.js:570:32) Building the binary locally Building: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\n ode_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose –libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library= gyp info it worked if it ends with ok gyp verb cli [ ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe’, gyp verb cli ‘C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular- cli\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js’, gyp verb cli ‘rebuild’, gyp verb cli ‘–verbose’, gyp verb cli ‘–libsass_ext=’, gyp verb cli ‘–libsass_cflags=’, gyp verb cli ‘–libsass_ldflags=’, gyp verb cli ‘–libsass_library=’ ] gyp info using node-gyp@3.5.0 gyp info using node@6.9.4 | win32 | ia32 gyp verb command rebuild [] gyp verb command clean [] gyp verb clean removing “build” directory gyp verb command configure [] gyp verb check python checking for Python executable “python2” in the PATH gyp verb which failed Error: not found: python2 gyp verb which failed at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming \npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12) gyp verb which failed at F (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19) gyp verb which failed at E (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29) gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\index.js:44:5 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:29:5 gyp verb which failed at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) gyp verb which failed python2 { Error: not found: python2 gyp verb which failed at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming \npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12) gyp verb which failed at F (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19) gyp verb which failed at E (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29) gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\index.js:44:5 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:29:5 gyp verb which failed at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) code: 'ENOENT ’ } gyp verb check python checking for Python executable “python” in the PATH gyp verb which failed Error: not found: python gyp verb which failed at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming \npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12) gyp verb which failed at F (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19) gyp verb which failed at E (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29) gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\index.js:44:5 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:29:5 gyp verb which failed at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) gyp verb which failed python { Error: not found: python gyp verb which failed at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming \npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12) gyp verb which failed at F (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19) gyp verb which failed at E (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul es\angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29) gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\index.js:44:5 gyp verb which failed at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
angular-cli\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:29:5 gyp verb which failed at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) code: 'ENOENT ’ } gyp verb could not find “python”. checking python launcher gyp verb could not find “python”. guessing location gyp verb ensuring that file exists: C:\Python27\python.exe gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: Can’t find Python executable “python”, you can set the PYT HON env variable. gyp ERR! stack at Object.failNoPython (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\n ode_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:454:19) gyp ERR! stack at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\no de_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:480:16) gyp ERR! stack at C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-c li\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29 gyp ERR! stack at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601 gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\499705\AppDa ta\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-g yp.js” “rebuild” “–verbose” “–libsass_ext=” “–libsass_cflags=” “–libsass_ldf lags=” “–libsass_library=” gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_m odules\node-sass gyp ERR! node -v v6.9.4 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.5.0 gyp ERR! not ok Build failed with error code: 1 C:\Users\499705\AppData\Roaming\npm `-- (empty)

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\an gular-cli\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@ 1.0.17: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“win32”,“arch”:"ia32 "}) npm WARN @angular/core@2.4.6 requires a peer of rxjs@^5.0.1 but none was install ed. npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601 npm ERR! argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\499705\AppData
\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “install” “-g” “angular-cli@l atest” npm ERR! node v6.9.4 npm ERR! npm v4.1.1 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! node-sass@4.5.0 postinstall: node scripts/build.js npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the node-sass@4.5.0 postinstall script 'node scripts/build.js '. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the node-sass package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node scripts/build.js npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs node-sass npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls node-sass npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! C:\Users\499705\Desktop\angular cli\npm-debug.log

In my case problem was related to this issue with ui.micro https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13559 disable McAfee fix the problem.

Please try this before you will start installing angular-cli on your machine: npm install -g uc.micro

Maybe it will help someone else.