Cannot update vue-cli, not finding global cli-upgrade package. How do I update?

[douglasg14b]

Version

3.2.2

Environment info

Environment Info:

  System:
    OS: Windows 10
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5670  @ 2.93GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.14.2 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 6.4.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Browsers:
    Edge: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

n/a

What is expected?

vue cli finds the package and updates

What is actually happening?

vue cli fails to find the package, and requests that it be globally installed.

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I cannot update vue cli, when I try I just get the error:

Command vue upgrade requires a global addon to be installed.
Please run npm install -g @vue/cli-upgrade and try again.

I have globally installed @vue/cli-upgrade already, but the error persists.

How do I update vue cli in this case? Also, why does vue info show that the global @vue/cli is not found, when it is installed and I've been using vue-cli successfully?

If I run npm list -g --depth=0 it shows the appropriate packages :

C:\Users\Douglas>npm list -g --depth=0
C:\Users\Douglas\AppData\Roaming\npm
 -- @vue/cli@3.4.1
 -- @vue/cli-upgrade@3.4.1
`-- gulp@4.0.0

[LinusBorg]

Duplicate of #3417

this feature isn't official yet and doesn't work well. Just update your packages like you normally do until we have finalized the feature.

[chrisbloom7]

Then shouldn't the --help output be updated to remove the command or mark it experimental?

[douglasg14b]

@chrisbloom7 That would make sense...