gatsby --version > -bash: gatsby: command not found

Question

I use mac and I installed gatsby-cli by:

npm install --global gatsby-cli

and 'npm root -g' command prints:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/node_modules

npm successfully installed gatsby but, I cannot run gatsby command (gatsby --version, gatsby --help) Whenever I type and run "gatsby --version" it prints:

-bash: gatsby: command not found

Is there any way I can fix this problem??

could you please try `gatsby info` instead of checking `version` ? — Amruth, Sep 18 '18 at 04:15
I use bash terminal. I don't understand what you are meaning by "responded the terminal" — leonkong, Sep 18 '18 at 04:42
i mean close your bash terminal and open terminal then run the command and check — Amruth, Sep 18 '18 at 04:43
I closed and opened again.. it returns the same message.. -bash: gatsby: command not found — leonkong, Sep 18 '18 at 04:54

Amruth · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-18T05:02:19.560

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you have to update your config. You may have to follow few steps

Set Config

remove existing config

npm config delete prefix

set new config

npm config set prefix /usr/local

Install gatsby

npm i -g gatsby-cli

now check version

gatsby --version

edited Sep 18 '18 at 05:02

answered Sep 18 '18 at 04:34

Amruth

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I did it.. but it still returns >>>-bash: gatsby: command not found – leonkong Sep 18 '18 at 04:44
oh! it helps!! now i can get result for gatsby --version Thankyou a lot!!! – leonkong Sep 18 '18 at 05:22
Nice. Can you elaborate what the issue is? Why does the solution work? – Xaver Fleer Oct 17 '20 at 23:36
@XaverFleer npm config prefix might be pointing to incorrect location. so we are removing it and setting new location. – Amruth Oct 19 '20 at 08:08
Great. It worked on my end, now set at 3.0 (I had installed gatsby locally before in the project folder) `Gatsby CLI version: 3.0.0 Gatsby version: 3.0.0` – cdsaenz Mar 03 '21 at 12:51

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 31 '21 at 23:22

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Instead of trying to install globally, you can use npx

 npx gatsby new my_dir_name

Then run:

npx gatsby develop

Then:

npx gatsby build

And then you can run them using

npm run develop
npm run build

edited Mar 31 '21 at 23:22

Dharman

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answered Mar 31 '21 at 23:16

Silikhe

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this seems like the cleanest solution IMO – Cole Apr 29 '22 at 19:56
This solution worked for me. For some unknown reason, I could not run then npm global command. You save my day. thank you. – Mahbub Alam Khan Oct 29 '22 at 10:34

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '20 at 23:33

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I came across the same issue. npx gatsby -v worked. Hope this helps somebody. Reference: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/15276#issuecomment-507340096

answered Jan 10 '20 at 23:33

mnishiguchi

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This doesn't actually mean it is installed locally. "npx" will just pull from the NPM global repository to grab it temporarily and then run the command with it, but it isn't installed locally which means anytime you want to do anything with gatsby you have to start it with "npx". https://github.com/npm/npx – BlueCaret Jan 07 '21 at 15:12

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 20 '22 at 15:18

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In my case i was missing sudo on install:

sudo npm i -g gatsby-cli

answered Feb 20 '22 at 15:18

Cristian Muscalu

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