I am using ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I have nodejs (not node) and npm installed.
I had installed gulp using npm install gulp -g.
But my command gulp does not work, it runs silently returning nothing!
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I ran into the same problem today on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. After debugging I noticed that I had accidentally installed nodejs and node using apt-get. After running
sudo apt-get remove node
the problem was fixed.
Hope this helps.
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djfrsn
Worked for me after following RaphDG, daniels, then jmw327 response's in that order! TY.
Burhan Ali
gulp needs node (
#!/usr/bin/env node) so how can removing it solve the problem? Can you explain this a bit more? If I follow this advice I quite rightly get /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directoryBurhan Ali
Never mind. I found the answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/21168141/…
Try linking the nodejs executable to node in the same path.
Something like:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
Depending on where your node executable is. You can find out with
which nodejs
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Dipendra Gurung
problem still persists :( "gulp" or "gulp -v" do nothing.
RaphDG
Have you tried this
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node ?Dipendra Gurung
It says, ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/bin/node’: File exists
daniels
Don't forget to run
npm install gulp -g again afterwards
Robin like the bird
If you have, say, $HOME/bin earlier in your path than the location of node, you can ln -s $(which nodejs) $HOME/bin/node without the sudo. Note that gulp-cli expects gulp to be installed locally, not globally (that is, omit -g).
On my side, same symptom. What was missing is th CLI part of gulp:
sudo npm install --global gulp-cli
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Ankur Shah
You must not use "sudo" while installing any package, as it creates problems,....try it without sudo!
Max Yudin
Worked for me with
sudo. Without sudo it says npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.When you have these kind of problem, my advice is to reinstall the module :
npm un -g gulp && npm un gulp
npm i -g gulp
npm i --save-dev gulp
These commands uninstall all gulp modules in local and global.
After, it installs gulp in global to use it in the command line, and in your local modules, because gulp needs it as well.
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Saeed Habibi
Works for me too.
You can Install gulp by using terminal(npm install -g gulp). But best way is use Synaptic Package Manager. This is old Software installer of Ubuntu. but now Ubuntu Introduce Ubuntu Software Center.
Cz of I recommended Synaptic is when you install some software it will download some of helpers too. Ex if you want download gulp(Node.js) in search type node.js. It will show some other apps too. Select all and click apply.
To download Synaptic
sudo apt-get install synaptic
To install
Node.jstoo.To check node version
node --version
To run
gulp, Go to the directory and just typegulp.
It will load all your project
Update 2017-10-14
To install complete node, follow these
- Remove node(if exist)
sudo apt-get remove nodejsCheck this as well - Remove npm(if exist)
sudo apt-get remove npm - Clean
sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install nodejssudo apt-get install npm
now check command gulp
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even after uninstalling and installing nodejs and npm kept getting "/usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory"
so i checked the node version (not nodejs): node -v got "The program 'node' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install nodejs-legacy"
so i did install it: sudo apt install nodejs-legacy
and gulp works fine.
which gulpcommand?