alloy "command not found"

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I'm trying out alloy and installed node via homebrew and then ran the npm installing alloy via the command: npm install alloy -g

I am getting no error when i run the npm install.

I then create a new mobile project and try to run command "alloy new" as the documentation suggests (http://projects.appcelerator.com/alloy/docs/Alloy-bootstrap/index.html) and I get the error: alloy: command not found

Am I missing something

— asked 7 months ago by Joe Lee
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the full command should be 

sudo npm install -g alloy
after which you should be able to run which alloy to find alloy and alloy --version to confirm its version.

— answered 7 months ago by Tony Lukasavage
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  • I had tried that before but I just notice that the last line of output from the install is: /usr/local/share/npm/bin/alloy -> /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/alloy/bin/alloy

    It seems like hasnt created the link for the alloy command, how do I link I link it so that alloy runs the correct command globally?

    — commented 7 months ago by Joe Lee

  • if which alloy is not showing you the alloy installation, you could just add /usr/local/share/npm/bin to your PATH environment variable. Seems like homebrew is installing to an unexpected location, but the environment variable pointing to it should resolve it.

    — commented 7 months ago by Tony Lukasavage

  • Sorry, not the most able of terminal users but I thought I could do something like this in my .bashrc? :

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

    ?

    — commented 7 months ago by Joe Lee

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Turns out I need to add it to the .profile

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

Restarted terminal and it worked!

this worked for me, but i had to create the .profile file in my home directory (Mac OSX Mountain Lion) and added 1 line to it (without quotes as shown in the answer above): PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/

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