Cannot run ionic. receives “No command 'ionic' found”

Question

I want to start using the ionic framework, but unfortunately I\'m already failing on the first step.

I am running Ubuntu 13.04 and I have node v0.10.25 installed. I\

Answer 1

First Solution

I recently ran into this issue and the only solution that worked for me was to uninstall both ionic and cordova.

npm uninstall -g cordova
npm uninstall -g ionic

Then just reinstall

npm install -g cordova
npm install -g ionic 

Second Solution

I ran into this issue again! This time check your environmental variables.

Run npm bin -g and check if the path returned is in your environmental variables. For me, it prompted that it was not found in the terminal output. I added that path to the environmental variables and restarted the terminal. From there everything started to work again. (source)

Answer 2

this worked for me. try adding below to the ~/.bash_profile for mac OSX el capitan users:

NPM_PACKAGES="${HOME}/.npm-packages"

NODE_PATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/lib/node_modules:$NODE_PATH"

PATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/bin:$PATH"
# Unset manpath so we can inherit from /etc/manpath via the `manpath`
# command
unset MANPATH # delete if you already modified MANPATH elsewhere in your config
MANPATH="$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man:$(manpath)"

then run source ~/.bash_profile to reload the profile in terminal.

additional info: node v4.3.1

Answer 3

I also faced same problem but i solved i used following commands on terminal it worked

• sudo npm uninstall ionic

  then  i used
  

sudo npm install -g cordova ionic@latest

and it worked fine it automatically installs best stabel version of cordova and latest stable version of ionic . for me it installed ionic 3.7.0 and cordova 7.0.1

Answer 4

for some of you, the two answer above might not work. here's a more general solution for situation where you see "XX" command not found

first check your npm root and npm root -g the result for the npm root -g should be something like "/usr/local". if it's not, then you found your problem.

change it by:

npm config set prefix /usr/local

then npm root -g should give you something like /usr/local/lib/node_modules . Then go ahead re-install everything with -g you will be good to go!

Answer 5

The package name has changed from ionic to @ionic/cli! To update, run: npm uninstall -g ionic Then run: npm i -g @ionic/cli

Answer 6

For Mac users

1. install the ionic

npm i -g @ionic/cli

2. check npm path

npm root -g

3. copy full path of ionic

Ex. /usr/local/Cellar/node/15.2.1/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli/bin

4. open this file as administrator "/etc/paths" with nano or whatever editor

Ex. sudo nano /etc/paths

5. Add ionic bin file full path to file ends. And save file.

That's it.