Bower: ENOGIT Git is not installed or not in the PATH

Question

Git is installed and is in the path.

Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8.

>which git
/usr/local/bin/git

Yet bower can\'t find

Answer 1

I am also getting the same error and the solution is first to check if the Git is installed or not in the system and if not please install it.

After installation, open Git Bash or Git Shell from Windows and go to your project (same way you go in command prompt using "cd path"). Git Shell is installed by default with Github windows installation.

Then run the same bower install command. It will work as expected.

The below screenshot shows the command using Git Shell

Answer 2

I also got the same problem from cmd and resolved using the following steps.

First install the https://msysgit.github.io/ (if not alredy installed). Then set the Git path as suggested by skinneejoe:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Git\bin;

Or this (notice the (x86)):

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;

Answer 3

I had the same error in Windows. Adding git to the path fixed the issue.

G:\Dropbox\Development\xampp\htdocs.penfolds.git\penfolds-atg-development>bower install
bower bootstrap#~3.0.0          ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the PATH

G:\>PATH
PATH=E:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\;

G:\Dropbox\Development\xampp\htdocs.penfolds.git\penfolds-atg-development>set PATH=%PATH%;E:\Program Files\Git\bin;

G:\Dropbox\Development\xampp\htdocs.penfolds.git\penfolds-atg-development>bower install
bower bootstrap#~3.0.0      not-cached git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#~3.0.0
bower bootstrap#~3.0.0         resolve git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#~3.0.0

Answer 4

On Windows, you can try to set the path at the command prompt:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Git\bin;