Angular - ng: command not found

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I'm trying to learn Angular and my knowledge in terminal is beginner. After I installed Angular and then type ng new my-project. I get the response ng: command not found. I've seen other posts that had this problem and I've uninstalled and reinstalled npm and ng.

The last step I took was npm install -g @angular/cli@latest then ng new my-project.

Then I get ng: command not found.

Version of npm? node? what operating system do you use? All those relate to this problem. Please update your question — Jota.Toledo
– Jota.Toledo, Commented Oct 8, 2017 at 8:55
Have you checked this one stackoverflow.com/questions/37227794/… — Asad Shakeel
– Asad Shakeel, Commented Jul 5, 2019 at 12:24
As an aside: if you work on multiple projects using different versions of the CLI (so that always running a single global version is not an option), try export PATH=$PATH:node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng - it will pick the local version (relative to the current directory), as long as you run the ng command from within the root directory of your Angular (sub)project. — Janaka Bandara
– Janaka Bandara, Commented Dec 13, 2019 at 13:57
For those using Linux: nano ~/.bashrc delete this line: source <(ng completion script) — Adioz Daniel
– Adioz Daniel, Commented Jul 31 at 10:31

codeandcloud · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-11 07:06:04Z

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Guess You are running on Windows (To make @jowey's answer more straightforward).

Install Angular normally from your bash $ npm install -g @angular/cli@latest Next is to rearrange the PATHS to
NPM
Nodejs
Angular CLI

in System Environment Variables, the picture below shows the arrangement.

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JoanR Over a year ago

Thanks, I just needed to add:C:\Users\"MY-USERNAME-HERE"\AppData\Roaming\npm

Fabien Haddadi Over a year ago

@Adedoyin: what exactly do you need to find in your path ending with @angular/cli? ng binary is located inside of bin/ (or in the folder specified at the next line).

bachph Over a year ago

´npm ls´ lists the local repository and ´npm ls --global´ lists the global repository. The path to the repository is printed out in the first line. Add both just to be sure

Rahul Sharma Over a year ago

I had to add the bin folder of angular CLI to the path \AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@angular\cli\bin

Manuel Lucas Over a year ago

Thanks for the solution, I took 2-3 week to find the solution until find yours.

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hajisky · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-17 16:33:19Z

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I had that same problem and just solved it.

make sure you have node installed.

after running

npm i -g @angular/cli

when installation is finished, try re-opening your git bash or whatever you're using or open it in a new folder. boom. it worked for me

answered Jun 17, 2018 at 16:33

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P.S. · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-30 16:14:09Z

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The error may occur if the NodeJs is installed incorrectly or not installed at all. The proper way to fix that is to install/reinstall it the right way (check their official website for that), but if you're searching for a quick solution, you can try to install Angular CLI globally:

npm install -g @angular/cli

If it doesn't work and you are in a hurry, use sudo:

sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

Don't forget to reopen your terminal window.

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answered Oct 7, 2017 at 18:21

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in3xu4 Over a year ago

doesn't work. even if installed with sudo, the ng command is still not found. the $PATH isn't updated at all.

Bon Over a year ago

If you need sudo for npm you have an improper installation of npm.

P.S. Over a year ago

@Bon, you're totally right! Installation with sudo is just a quick fix

Auguste Over a year ago

All I had to do was to uninstall the existing nodejs and reinstall it from the nodejs website. The one from my computer was from the corporate approved software.

Asad Shakeel · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-05 12:23:40Z

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If you have already installed @angular/cli

Then you only need to link it to npm using npm link @angular/cli

Otherwise first install angular by npm install @angular/cli and then link.

answered Jul 5, 2019 at 12:23

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Tom Rudge Over a year ago

This worked for me (npm link @angular/cli) - commenting to register date

patrick.1729 Feb 23 at 6:33

This worked for me, simple and hassle-free, thanks mate!

Tony Brasunas · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-24 20:20:47Z

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For MacOS

Sometimes the ng command does not get established as a link in /usr/local/bin. I fixed the problem by adding it manually:

ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/node/10.10.0/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/bin/ng /usr/local/bin/ng

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Chang Over a year ago

Thank you. Your solution works. My ng path is /usr/local/Cellar/node/11.6.0/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng

Tony Brasunas Over a year ago

Worked for me too. My ng path with Node 12 and Angular 11 turned out to be: /usr/local/Cellar/node/12.12.0/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng

Mahadi Hassan Babu · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-01 15:16:20Z

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First of all check by running npm config get prefix

It should return some thing like (C:\Users\acer\AppData\Roaming\npm)
if it does not return it.
run npm config delete prefix
then run npm install -g @angular/cli@latest
And check by running ng --version
It has solved my problem. Hope it will help you.

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Cie6ohpa Over a year ago

on linux npm get prefix gives /usr/local, the ng executable is at /usr/local/bin/ng and is a symbolic link to ../lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng.js

IonicMan · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-25 14:23:55Z

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It may has not helped OP, but it solved my problem. This answer is to help others who have not tried the command mentioned in OP's question.

Just use npm install -g @angular/cli@latest. It did the trick for me.

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MHK · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-19 03:15:33Z

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Most of the time developers install just Node.js and start working on development. This issue related angular cli dependency on your development environment.

You can fix this with command

npm install -g @angular/cli

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Mohamad Mirzadeh · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-08 05:58:26Z

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if you install npm correctly in this way:

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

and still have that problem, it maybe because you run the command in shell and not in cmd (you need to run command in cmd), check this out and maybe it helps...

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jfk · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-01 09:09:12Z

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I had the same issue in Windows. I could solve it by running the ng command with npm

ng g c test

Error : C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm/node_modules/node/bin/node: line 1: This: command not found

Solution :

$ npm run ng g c test

Other solution worked for me to use Windows PowerShell or command prompt instead of bash shell

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Mohamad Mousheimish · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-08 11:52:16Z

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If you are working on Windows then do the following:

From this directory:

C:\Users\ [your username] \AppData\Roaming , delete NPM folder then install Angular using this command npm install -g @angular/cli

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Corndog · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-08 14:31:26Z

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The answer on this page worked for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54633995/2347595

Using the git bash terminal, I noticed that when I npm install -g @angular/cli and then check the ~/AppData/Roaming/npm/ directory, it contains 3 files:

ng
ng.cmd
ng.ps1

Then in my git bash terminal I typed the following to extend the $PATH to point to this top-level npm directory: export PATH=$PATH:~/AppData/Roaming/npm/

I was then able to run npm version to verify.

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John Valdetine · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-21 13:14:06Z

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Windows 10 Only

If you are using Git Bash and also you are sure that you have done all steps that are listed above, still getting an error like this, run following command:

alias ng="C:/Users/<your-username>/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng"

then run ng -v

Finally, it works if you see the version of Angular-CLI

answered Dec 21, 2020 at 13:14

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Shubham Arya Over a year ago

but every time I start my vs code I have to do this in order to run ng commands. Please help.

c24b Over a year ago

put it into your .bash_profile or your .bash_rc

Mohamad Mousheimish · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-08 11:51:04Z

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100% working solution

1) rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules

2)brew uninstall node

3)echo prefix=~/.npm-packages >> ~/.npmrc

4)brew install node

5) npm install -g @angular/cli

Finally and most importantly

6) export PATH="$HOME/.npm-packages/bin:$PATH"

Also if any editor still shown err than write

7) point over there .

100% working

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Parsa Saei Over a year ago

At the end I runned npm install then npm start

Parsa Saei Over a year ago

At the ClientApp directory

shutsman Over a year ago

Perfect! it works for me but after a few times. (also I had an issue with brew (did not have it and had and issue with installing it solution here: github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/…))

Mohammad Habibur Rahman · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-14 19:15:42Z

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if you have npm, install run the command

npm install -g @angular/cli

then bind your ng using this:

cd

alias ng=".npm-global/bin/ng"

Follow the Pictures for more help.

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Homa Over a year ago

It worked for me on a mac environment as a quick workaround. However, I need to run the commands every time with a new terminal window.

kat · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-20 18:42:27Z

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You can install npx to use Angular CLI installed in your directory:

npm install -g npx
npx ng serve

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codeandcloud · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-11 07:13:32Z

*Windows only*

The clue is to arrange the entries in the path variable right.

As the NPM wiki tells us:

Because the installer puts C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs before C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm on your PATH, it will always use version of npm installed with node instead of the version of npm you installed using npm -g install npm@.

So your path variable will look something like:

C:\<path-to-node-installation>;%appdata%\npm;

Now you have to possibilities:

Swap the two entries so it will look like

…;%appdata%\npm;C:\<path-to-node-installation>;…

This will load the npm version installed with npm (and not with node) and with it the installed Agnular CLI version.

If you (for whatever reason) like to use the npm version bundled with node, add the direct path to your global Angualr CLI version. After this your path variable should look like this:

…;C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@angular\cli;C:\<path-to-node-installation>;%appdata%\npm;…

or

    …;%appdata%\npm\node_modules\@angular\cli;C:\<path-to-node-installation>;%appdata%\npm;…

for the short form.

This worked for me since a while now.

Imran Hussain · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-27 13:55:05Z

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Before wasting lots of time in installing and uninstalling, read this.

If you already installed angular before and found this issue, may be it is the reason that you installed angular before with running terminal as Administrator and now trying this command without administrator mode or vice versa. There is a difference in these two.

If you installed angular without administrator mode you can only use angular commands such as ng without administrator mode. Similarly,

If you installed angular with administrator mode you can use angular commands such as ng in administrator mode only.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Removing NODE and using NVM instead fixed a lot of issues.

removing Node from your system

install NVM from here https://github.com/creationix/nvm

Install Node via NVM: nvm install

stable run npm install -g angular-cli

LINK

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John Velonis Over a year ago

If you are using nvm and have more than one version of node installed, make sure you are using the same version of node that you used when you installed Angular. I keep forgetting this.

eyesun · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-21 21:32:54Z

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I tried this and everything worked by changing the npm directory.

         mkdir ~/.npm-global
         npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
         export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
         source ~/.profile
         npm install -g jshint
         ng --version

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Jitendra Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-08 05:15:17Z

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Step 1 : Delete "npm" folder from the following path

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming

Step 2 : Once you have the "npm" folder deleted, uninstall Node.Js.

Step 3 : Reinstall Node.JS

Step 4 : Install Angular CLI Using this command npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

Step 5: Now try : ng --version or ng -v

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AceMati · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-21 11:24:31Z

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I had a lot of issues installing it on a mac with all the permission errors Finally the following line solve the issue.

sudo npm i -g @angular/cli

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G_V Over a year ago

This downloaded the missing components for me and then the gradle wrapper downgraded to the correct version for the project.

Satyveer Singh · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-16 08:09:21Z

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>> npm uninstall -g angular-cli
>> npm uninstall -g @angular/cli

>> npm cache clean

Restart you machine

then >> npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

set Path : C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli

Hope you never get 'ng' not found

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Lodlaiden · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-19 19:29:32Z

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Windows oriented:

If you're chasing an "update node/angular and I wiped my AppData folder and now the world hates me stream of errors", then this may help.

Clear out Environment Variable settings for Node/npm/@angular/cli (They don't help)

Install Node.JS/npm from https://nodejs.org/en/ (Remember where you install it)

Confirm the location npm is [currently] running from:

npm config get prefix

Realize that is not where you just install new/fresh Node.

Update npm global pointer (which is not an environment variable)

npm config set prefix "C:\Program Files\nodejs"

Reinstall Angular

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

Check angular install

ng --version

Hopefully this helps someone. Sorry, you'll have to reinstall any other interesting packages.

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PPJN Dec 20, 2024 at 22:29

This worked for me! Thank you so much @Lodlaiden

Rainer Plumer · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-05 17:22:32Z

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I'll add this as "yet another option" which worked for me when none of the other options worked( on windows ).

You can run the angular binary via its full path name. node C:\Users\user\node_modules@angular\cli\bin\ng.js --version

Oddly enough, adding these paths to my env didn't work...for some reason windows opened editor to edit ng.js file instead of running it.

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aLuViAn · Accepted Answer · 2024-11-12 09:41:15Z

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My situation was a bit different so I thought I'd better add my answer to this thread:

On a Debian Bookworm, I removed node and npm and still I had this error when I did a sudo -i. As this happened during login to root, so I checked /root/.bashrc and found this line:

# Load Angular CLI autocompletion.
source <(ng completion script)

Removing this line and then source .bashrc fixed the problem.

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Petar Gutov · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-04 16:39:24Z

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You must know the full path of your angular installation. For example: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules@angular\cli\bin\ng . Type in cmd, powershell or bash

alias ng="C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@angular\cli\bin\ng"

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Muhammad Sulman · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-15 10:38:05Z

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In my case

OS Version: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

Node version v12.16.0

Remove ng from /usr/local/bin by using below command.

sudo rm -r ng

After that, installed ng by using command mentioned below.

sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

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Banlon Jones · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-12 22:58:13Z

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For Linux user

$ alias ng="/home/jones/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng"

then check angular/cli version

ng --version

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FairSite2C · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-24 11:45:59Z

I guess everyone figured this out years ago but me. simple ng stopped working when I updated node. I tried all the previous suggestions in this thread to no avail but this is my solution. the command npm ng works but darn it I want just ng to work. So I created a bat filed named ng.bat with this content

npm ng %*

either put ng.bat in a directory recognized by path or add a new path in This Computer / Properties / Advanced System Settings / Environment Variables/ System Variables / Path . For instance I added C:\Shortcuts to path.

EDIT the above answer is not THE REAL SOLUTION. What npm need is to find the npm-cli.js which is located in the npm bin directory. If a path is not set to bin then not work. I just copied npm-cli.js and put it in the npm directoy which has a path set to it.

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