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firebase-tools "-bash: firebase: command not found"

Excited that Firebase's hosting is now out of beta. Trying to get going with with the firebase-tools package and I've successfully installed it:

npm install -g firebase-tools

Trying to run any tool fails with

-bash: firebase: command not found

I've tried putting the following command in my .bash_profile without any luck

export PATH=/usr/local/share/npm/bin:$PATH

Any ideas? Pretty new to the command line in general.

Thanks!

Solution

  • @mklement0 That answer looks good, but I'm worried it will be intimidating to someone who is so new to the command line. So I'm going to cherry-pick the most relevant piece of it.

    @cienki Run this command to see what you should be putting in that PATH prefix in your .bash_profile file:

    npm get prefix