Cannot install NodeJs usr bin env node No such file or directory

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I m trying to install nodeJs into my Ubuntu 14 04 in order to use GruntJs   I ve read about Ubuntu different way of doing it  issues    so this is what I ve done in order to install it   sudo apt-get install npm  sudo npm install -g grunt-cli   Typing grunt after that I ve got the error    usr bin env  node  No such file or directory   So  I ve tried   curl -sL https   deb nodesource com setup   sudo bash -  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs  sudo apt-get update   And trying again  and still getting the error  I ve tried   sudo add-apt-repository https   launchpad net  chris-lea  archive node js   sudo apt-get install -y nodejs   I ve got this message   nodejs is already the newest version  0 to upgrade  0 to newly install  0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade    I did try a cleanup just in case   sudo apt-get autoremove   But nope  the error is still there  when I type grunt I still get  usr bin env  node  No such file or directory  What should I do

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The issue is not with the version of node. Instead, it is the way NodeJS is installed by default in Ubuntu. When running a Node application in Ubuntu you have to run nodejs somethign.js instead of node something.js

So the application name called in the terminal is nodejs and not node. This is why there is a need for a symlink to simply forward all the commands received as node to nodejs.

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

User · Answer

Just rename the command or file name ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node by this command

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In my case  installing nodejs-legacy solved the issue   sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

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Just do    sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy   And it will start working

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I think you should upgrade lastest node version  sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n stable

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When I was using gulp i got this error      gulp    usr bin env     node     No such file or directory  This was removed by executing following command you have to keep in mind that  usr bin directory has all permissions      ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node   this works for me

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For my case link did NOT work as follow  ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node  But you can open  usr local bin lessc as root  and change the first line from node to nodejs   -   usr bin env node     usr bin env nodejs

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Depending on how you installed your node  most of the time it might not be in  usr bin   in my own case it was I used nvm to install so my node was in   nvm versions   Using this command which node I found out the path  but to make the work easier you can run this command   nodepath   which node   sudo ln -s  nodepath  usr bin node   the above command will get the location of your node and create a link for you

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I ve found this is often a misnaming error  if you install from a package manager you bin may be called nodejs so you just need to symlink it like so   ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node

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Follow these commands to fix the problem   In a terminal    Clean the entire NPM cache     sudo npm cache clean -f  sudo npm install -g n  Install the latest stable version of Node js   sudo n stable    Now the latest version of Node js was installed  Check the version using   node -v

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Doing a symlink solves the issue   ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node    My thanks and  1 vote to bodokaiser s answer

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if you are able to access node on ubuntu terminal using nodejs command then this problem can be simply solved using -creating a symbolic link of nodejs and node using  ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node  and this may solve the problem

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While ln -s is the obvious easiest fix  a piece of explanation      Because of a conflict with another package  the executable from the   Ubuntu repositories is called nodejs instead of node  Keep this in   mind as you are running software    This advice comes up  when installing sudo apt-get install nodejs   So some other known tool  I don t know what it does  While being known to ubuntu repositories  it is not installed by default in 16 04  occupies that namespace   Would have been nice  if Ubuntu had offered an advice how to fix this  cleanly   if not by doing by hand what otherwise the package would do   a collision remains a collision    if when it would occur

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sudo PATH   PATH  usr local bin  npm install -g  lt package-name gt

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There are two solutions to this   a  Set your PATH variable to include   usr local bin   export PATH   PATH  usr local bin   b  Create a symlink to   usr bin  which is already in your PATH  ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node  I hope it helps

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For me the accepted answer did not yet work  I started off as suggested here   ln -s  usr bin nodejs  usr bin node   After doing this I was getting the following error        usr local lib node modules npm bin npm-cli js 85         let notifier   require  update-notifier    pkg                    SyntaxError  Block-scoped declarations  let  const  function  class    not yet supported outside strict mode       at exports runInThisContext  vm js 53 16        at Module  compile  module js 374 25        at Object Module  extensions  js  module js 417 10        at Module load  module js 344 32        at Function Module  load  module js 301 12        at Function Module runMain  module js 442 10        at startup  node js 136 18        at node js 966 3   The solution was to download the most recent version of node from https   nodejs org en download     Then I did   sudo tar -xf node-v10 15 0-linux-x64 tar xz --directory  usr local --strip-components 1   Now the update was finally successful  npm -v changed from 3 2 1 to 6 4 1

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If you already have nodejs installed  check with which nodejs  and don t want to install another package  you can  as root   update-alternatives --install  usr bin node node  usr bin nodejs 99

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if you are using nvm node version manager  use this command to create a symlink  sudo ln -s  quot   which node  quot   usr bin node sudo ln -s  quot   which npm  quot   usr bin npm   The first command creates a symlink for node The second command creates a symlink for npm

[node.js] Cannot install NodeJs: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

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