executing certain commands do absolutely nothing

Question

I have installed 3 new packages recently through NPM and none of them are executing.

I ran sudo npm install -g ionic and the installation looked like normal.

Then I can run which ionic and I get /usr/local/bin/ionic which looks good.

But if I run ionic start myApp tabs according to the documentation this should create a new ionic project. But instead it does absolutely nothing. No output on the command line, no project created. I press enter to execute the command and it immediately returns to another line on the command line as if I simply pressed enter with no command entered at all... This may not be clear, sorry.

I tried uninstalling ionic with sudo npm uninstall -g ionic which uninstalled it successfully, and then re-installed it. No change in behavior. Same is happening for the packages cordova and bower. Note: all of these I installed at the same time, and all of them are not working. No output, no errors, no nothing. Running them with sudo doesn't make a difference either.

I am running ubuntu 14.04.

Has anyone experienced this before?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 02 '14 at 17:28

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Run
```
which node
```
and in my case it displayed /usr/sbin/node.
If it says command not found, skip to 3. Remove it by
```
sudo rm /usr/sbin/node
```
Run
```
which nodejs
```
in my case it displayed /usr/bin/nodejs.

Make a link

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

OR

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

edited Nov 02 '14 at 17:28

Eric Carvalho

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answered Nov 02 '14 at 10:07

Basit

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Option 4A worked for me. Thank you very much! – SnareChops Nov 02 '14 at 23:21
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I re-installed my OS and therefore cordova. This literally saved my bum as even typing cordova did nothing. Thanks :) – Tolga Ozses Jun 26 '15 at 06:21
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Wow. Searched for ages and this was the only solution which worked for me. Thanks! – BIOSTALL Jun 26 '18 at 15:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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it also can be because of outdated nodejs installed according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21362636/phonegap-cli-on-linux-doesnt-do-anything it can be fixed in next way:

sudo apt-get install curl
npm update npm -g
sudo npm install n -g
sudo n stable

and then npm remove -g ionic && npm install -g ionic

edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

Community

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answered Jul 25 '15 at 10:48

skyboy

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '14 at 16:15

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I think installing any application other than apt-get may have the same problem.Try to use

which ionic start MyApps tab

Or

which ionic

Then

-command for importing templates here- start MyApps tab

answered Oct 19 '14 at 16:15

Rohan

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executing certain commands do absolutely nothing

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