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?

Answer 1

1. Run

   which node
   

   and in my case it displayed /usr/sbin/node.

2. If it says command not found, skip to 3. Remove it by

   sudo rm /usr/sbin/node
   

3. Run

   which nodejs
   

   in my case it displayed /usr/bin/nodejs.

4. Make a link

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

   OR

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

Answer 2

it also can be because of outdated nodejs installed according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21362636/phonegap-cli-on-linux-doesnt-do-anything it can be fixed in next way: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

Answer 3

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