Issue installing bower on windows

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mottosson picture mottosson · May 13, 2014 · Viewed 32k times · Source

I'm using Windows 7 64bit and I install Bower with

npm install -g bower

It seems to install correctly.

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/amdefine
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/amdefine
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\local\bower -> C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\local\node_
modules\bower\bin\bower
[email protected] C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\local\node_modules\bower
...

But bower is not working:

$bower
sh.exe": bower: command not found

$bower -v
sh.exe": bower: command not found

What could be wrong?

Answer

Aleksandr Gembinski picture Aleksandr Gembinski · Sep 3, 2014

Same problem but for me I had to add the Path Environment Variable that pointed to the AppData/Roming/ folder. I have no idea why node.js would install npm in the Roming folder. If I didn't have hidden folders turned on we never would have found it.

C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\npm;

Then npm works from Node.js command prompt, and bower works from GitBash.

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