bower command not found

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I tried to install twitter bower on my Mac  and I used  npm install bower -g   Then I tried bower --help  and the output was bower command not found  Why is that

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I am using node version manager  I was getting this error message because I had switched to a different version of node  When I switched back to the version of node where I installed bower  this error went away  In my case  the command was nvm use stable

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This turned out to NOT be a bower problem  though it showed up for me with bower    It seems to be a node-which problem   If a file is in the path  but has the setuid setgid bit set  which will not find it    Here is a files with the s bit set   unix  which  will find it with no problems       ls -al  usr local bin       -rwxrwsr-- 110 root    nmt  5535636 Jul 17  2012 git   Here is a node-which attempt    gt  which sync  git   Error  not found  git   I change the permissions  chomd 755 git   Now node-which can find it    gt  which sync  git     usr local bin git    Hope this helps

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I am almost sure you are not actually getting it installed correctly  Since you are trying to install it globally  you will need to run it with sudo   sudo npm install -g bower

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Alternatively  you can use npx which comes along with the npm   5 6   npx bower install

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Just like in this question  npm global path prefix  all you need is to set proper npm prefix   UNIX     npm config set prefix  usr local   npm install -g bower    which bower  gt  gt   usr local bin bower   Windows ans NVM     npm config set prefix  c Users xxxxxxx AppData Roaming nvm v8 9 2   npm install -g bower   Then bower should be located just in your  PATH

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