Installing Bower on Ubuntu

Question

I m trying to install Bower on XUbuntu 13 10  following the instructions on the Bower home page  after doing sudo apt-get install npm and sudo npm install -g bower I get the following after issuing bower on the command line    usr bin env  node  No such file or directory   I then install Node  even though I assume that would not be unnecessary since Bower s only dependency would be NPM  correct    Anyhow  after I install node with sudo apt-get install node any of the Bower commands  such as bower help  simply don t do anything  i e  output nothing   How to install Bower on Ubuntu  preferably without manually downloading various versions of things

User · Answer

The published responses are correct but incomplete.

Git to install the packages we first need to make sure git is installed.

$ sudo apt install git-core

Bower uses Node.js and npm to manage the programs so lets install these.

$ sudo apt install nodejs

Node will now be installed with the executable located in /etc/usr/nodejs.

You should be able to execute Node.js by using the command below, but as ours are location in nodejs we will get an error No such file or directory.

$ /usr/bin/env node

We can manually fix this by creating a symlink.

$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Now check Node.js is installed correctly by using.

$ /usr/bin/env node
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Some users suggest installing legacy nodejs, this package just creates a symbolic link to binary nodejs.

$ sudo apt install nodejs-legacy

Now, you can install npm and bower

Install npm

$ sudo apt install npm

Install Bower

$ sudo npm install -g bower

Check bower is installed and what version you're running.

$ bower -v
1.8.0

Reference:

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User · Answer

Hi another solution to this problem is to simply add the node nodejs binary folder to your PATH using the following command   ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node  See NPM GitHub for better explanation

User · Answer

First of all install nodejs   sudo apt-get install nodejs   Then install npm   sudo apt-get install npm   Then install bower   npm install -g bower   For any of the npm package tutorial visit  https   www npmjs com   Here just search the package and you can find how to install  documentation and tutorials as well   P S  This is just a very common solution  If your problem still exists you can try the advanced one

User · Answer

sudo ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node   or install legacy nodejs   sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy   As seen in this GitHub issue

User · Answer

At Least from Ubuntu 12 04  an old version  0 6 x  of Node is in the standard repository  To install  just run   sudo apt-get install nodejs   NPM comes with latest version of nodejs  Once you have that  then run  sudo npm install bower -g   Should be good to go after that  You may need to run some updates  but it should be fairly straight forward

User · Answer

Ubuntu 16 04 and later  Bower is a package manager primarily for  but not limited to  front-end web development  In Ubuntu 16 04 and later Bower package manager can be quickly and easily installed from the Ubuntu Software app  Open Ubuntu Software  search for  bower  and click the Install button to install it  In all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type   sudo snap install bower --classic

User · Answer

on Ubuntu 12 04 and the packaged version of NodeJs is too old to install Bower using the PPA   sudo add-apt-repository ppa chris-lea node js  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install nodejs   When this has installed  check the version   npm --version 1 4 3   Now install Bower   sudo npm install -g bower   This will fetch and install Bower globally

User · Answer

sudo apt-get install nodejs   installs nodejs  sudo apt-get install npm   installs npm  sudo npm install bower -g   installs bower via npm

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