"command not found: vercel" after installing globally

[lukosevicius]

I just installed vercel with:
npm install -g vercel
But when I try to run: verlcel, I get: zsh: command not found: vercel

I tried to list installed NPM packaged to see if it is installed, and seems that it is:

How could I make it run?

[mcsdevv]

Hey @lukosevicius, this is likely an issue with your Node.js installation, are you able to run other commands globally?

[StayFoolisj]

Hi Mantas did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same issue

[salatielosorno]

I have the same problem. What was the alternative? Could you share it?

[solarlime]

The same. I installed it via yarn, so it's located in ~/.yarn/bin/. Fixing the PATH should help:
export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin
The same solution for npm, just change the route.

[Blueblack319]

where to fix path??

[TheKachi]

@solarlime Please can you be a little more explicit about how to fix path. I need the exact command to run

[francesca-giammichele-mahana]

@TheKachi , i just typed the command in the terminal and it worked
export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin

[TomVizzo]

Solution:
mkdir ~/.npm-global
export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin
echo -e "export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global\nexport PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

[JKQuah]

Not working

[Sir-Rumeh]

Where exactly am i supposed to trigger these commands please

[abrahammegantoro]

can you provide your code for powershell, please? Thank you in advance :)

[truecode112]

It worked for me.
Thanks

[Johnrobmiller]

please be sure to mention what OS this is running on when pasting command lines like this. to not do so is to fail to put yourself in another person's shoes -- not everybody uses the same OS your are.

[kkdima]

@lukosevicius @mcsdevv @salatielosorno @StayFoolisj @solarlime
Hey guys! I encountered the same problem tried approaches you mentioned here and still can't resolve it.
I found where I have vercel installed with the command: npm list -g --depth=0 and specifically added it to my $PATH settings.

Command printenv show me this:
PATH=/Users/dimakononenko/.npm-packages/lib:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/dimakononenko/bin

But calling "vercel" in the CLI still gives this error zsh: command not found: vercel
Did anyone come close to understanding the nature of this issue?

[vindecodex]

@lukosevicius

It's just that you've been using zsh instead of bash, you can add your npm bin PATH to your zsh config.

npm get prefix - returns the path of your node that contains the bin directory.

echo "export PATH=$PATH:$(npm get prefix)/bin" >> ~/.zshrc"

source ~/.zshrc - refresh your config to take effect

You can even double check if vercel exist inside the bin folder, this is where global packages can be found.
If your switching to bash better to add it also on your `~/.bashrc'

[duggiemitchell]

This worked for me when using npm and zsh 💅🏾, but small typo:

echo "export PATH=$PATH:$(npm get prefix)/bin" >> ~/.zshrc

[proverbed]

This worked for me, thank you 🙏

[rimzzlabs]

hello is there any solution to this? Im using yarn but still doesn't work

[romelgomez]

try with this.

• echo "export PATH=$PATH:$(yarn global bin)" >> ~/.zshrc
• source ~/.zshrc

[leerob]

Yeah, or potentially your .bash_profile if you're not using ZSH!

[naskritus]

Thank you!

[ghost]

I use node with the asdf version manager. asdf reshim solved this issue for me

[mobagenie]

if command

export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin

or

export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global

still not work, you can force run with full path to binary vercel :

mg@mg-PC:~/.yarn/bin/vercel --version
Vercel CLI 28.12.4
28.12.4

[jauresmanouan]

export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin work perfectly thanks 👍🏾

[NatumanyaGuy]

This happened to me when I deleted my Path user environment variables (on Windows!).

• Go to the npm globally installed packages here - C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm
• Confirm that vercel exists - as a couple of files (e.g. vercel, vercel.cmd, vercel.ps1)
• Copy this directory value (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm)
• Add this directory value to your Path user environment variables.
• Restart your computer and then run vercel -v in the CLI (could be Powershell or Command Prompt) to confirm.

[Ayush242]

I am able to run vercel in cmd but not on bash.
P.S. above solutions didn't worked for me

[rd273001]

It worked on CMD outside VS code, but not working on vsCode terminal either using bash/CMD/PowerShell?

[kingsleynwoye]

I successfully installed Vercel within macOS using the following command.
brew install vercel-cli

[Risini1998]

this works with npm also

[arnelamo]

This works

[gillianroberts1]

this works!

[ivonamojsovska]

amin

[jornatf]

Thank you @kingsleynwoye this works for me!! You saved my life.

[brandonleetran]

I am using yarn.. anybody found an actual fix for this

[prodkt]

Nothing. We have the feeling we've exhausted this as much as we can without an official response from vercel.

[gonwi]

Just add the following export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin at the end of your .bashrc or zshrc and then source .bashrc.

[jonthornham]

Running this command in terminal worked for me. I used npm to install Vercel.

alias vercel="npm config get prefix/bin/vercel"