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"