TiddlyWiki Prerelease on Node.JS: Installing Issue

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#1

As official documents say:

  1. I downloaded TW 5.3.2 prerelease
  2. Unzipped it in C:\TiddlyWiki on Windows 11
  3. Opened the Terminal at C:\TiddlyWiki
  4. Run npm link and it linked successfully
  5. In another Terminal window I entered tiddlywiki --version and I got the below error
tiddlywiki : The term 'tiddlywiki' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ tiddlywiki --version
+ ~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (tiddlywiki:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
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#2

Did you close the terminal after performing the npm link? – I usually do close all terminals if I do mess with global settings or environment variables.

#3

Yes, I closed all open Terminal windows. I checked the C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\npmand I see

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So the node linkseems worked correctly, but I get the above error!

#4

How / where did you download the preview version from?

#5

I downloaded from GitHub repo.

Solved

  • I added C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\npm to Windows path and it start working!
  • But this is the first time I see such error. I expected npm to use its config file and no need to add above folder to Windows path, but this time it did not work!!
#6

And is this path part of your “Path” environment variable?

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#7

Thank you Mario! The problem was with path!