Trying to install yo with npm on Windows

Question

I am on Windows and try to follow the instructions of http://yeoman.io/learning/index.html . So far, I have successfully installed grunt-cli and bower, but when I try to install yo using the following command ...

npm install -g yo

... the command line returns this:

> spawn-sync@1.0.11 postinstall C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn\node_modules\spawn-sync
> node postinstall

npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "yo"
npm ERR! node v0.12.4
npm ERR! npm  v2.10.1
npm ERR! file ;C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
npm ERR! path ;C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn ;C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe

npm ERR! spawn-sync@1.0.11 postinstall: `node postinstall`
npm ERR! spawn ;C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the spawn-sync@1.0.11 postinstall script 'node postinstall'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the spawn-sync package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls spawn-sync
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm-debug.log

Does anyone know what this means and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

You can try: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7781

I think this will help you resolve your issue.

And get node and npm in cmd. You can set the location of the node in a Windows environment variable. Then restart your cmd and try again to do this.