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I'm trying to install a Foundation 5 project on OS X 10.10. I have installed Bower, but when installing the Foundation project (i.e. foundation new my-project-folder), it returns:

Can't find bower. You can install it by running: sudo npm install -g bower

locate bower returns:

Users/[username]/..
.cache/..
.local/share/..
.npm/..

The only path currently in .bash_profile is:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

echo $PATH returns: 

/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

It appears that this is insufficient for finding Bower.

Can this issue be resolved by adding:

PATH=/usr/local/share:$PATH

to .bash_profile? Is there a better approach?

Why would Bower not be findable after installing it (i.e. npm install -g bower)?'

It may be relevant that I just upgraded from Mountain Lion. I did so because it uses Ruby 1.8+, and Foundation requires Ruby 1.9+. I tried Homebrew while still on Mountain Lion, but this created a hot mess, so the OS upgrade seemed like the cleanest approach.

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Try prefixing npm as suggested in this answer.

$ npm config set prefix /usr/local $ npm install -g bower

Then check that bower shows up in your path with $ which bower

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