[linux] Unknown command: vuepress

[avimehenwal]

• I confirm that this is an issue rather than a question.

Bug report

After fresh installation, unable to run vuepress command on linux

~/R/vuepress-starter ❯❯❯ yarn global list
yarn global v1.22.4
warning package.json: No license field
info "@vue/cli@4.2.3" has binaries:
   - vue
info "vuepress@1.4.1" has binaries:
   - vuepress
Done in 1.42s.
~/R/vuepress-starter ❯❯❯ vuepress
fish: Unknown command: vuepress

Steps to reproduce

1. On linux, yarn global add vuepress
2. then vuepress

Linux OS details

Linux parrot 5.4.0-4parrot1-amd64 #1 SMP Parrot 5.4.19-4parrot1 (2020-02-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Parrot
Description:    Parrot GNU/Linux 4.8
Release:        4.8
Codename:       n/a

What is expected?

vuepress CLI should get installed and work properly

What is actually happening?

vuepress CLI is not know by system

Other relevant information

• Output of npx vuepress info in my VuePress project:

Environment Info:

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.4 Parrot GNU/Linux 4.8 4.8
    CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.16.2 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.4 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.4 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 81.0.4044.92
    Firefox: 74.0.1
  npmPackages:
    @vuepress/core: Not Found
    @vuepress/theme-default: Not Found
    vuepress: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    vuepress: Not Found

[avimehenwal]

I solved it by setting the NODE_PATH environment and using npm to install the package,
sorry for the trouble, But kindly do share if there are any better ways to solve this issue. 🔢

set -x NODE_PATH /usr/local/lib/node_modules

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