bash on ubuntu on windows run npm command gives error "/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory"

Question

When trying to install npm on "bash on ubuntu on windows", it installs, but every call to npm or whatever results in the error:

"/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory"

How to solve this?

mtness · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-12 10:57:56Z

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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.

In "bash on ubuntu on windows", one has to run it with sudo:

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

answered Dec 12, 2016 at 10:57

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