zsh: command not found: jhipster

Question

I couldn't run jhipster generator, got error: zsh: command not found: jhipster

My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I use zsh:

➜ yarn global add generator-jhipster
yarn global v0.24.5
warning No license field
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
success Installed "generator-jhipster@4.5.0" with binaries:
      - jhipster
warning No license field
Done in 1.87s.
➜ jhipster
zsh: command not found: jhipster

What did I missed?

Also I have this in my .zshrc:

# npm
export PATH="$PATH:/home/romanovi/.npm-global/bin"
export NODE_PATH="$NODE_PATH:/home/romanovi/.npm-global/lib/node_modules"

# Yarn
export PATH="$PATH:`yarn global bin`"

user_1422297 · Answer

I had the same problem and solved it by running yarn global bin and adding the returned value to my PATH.

user_3306354 · Answer

Update Dec 2018

Just updating the path didn't work for me. I had to also set the yarn prefix.

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (bionic)
yarn 1.12.3
npm v3.5.2
node v8.10.0
zsh

Steps

Confirm your global bin path
```
yarn global bin
```

I got: /home/username/.yarn/bin

set yarn prefix:

make sure your yarn prefix is the parent directory of your bin directory. You can confirm by running
```
yarn config get prefix
```
when I ran this, my prefix was empty, so I set it:
```
yarn config set prefix ~/.yarn
```
add the following to ~/.bash_profile
```
export PATH="$PATH:`yarn global bin`"
```
for zsh users, be sure to add this line to ~/.zshrc
restart your shell or start a new one

bash -l or zsh

user_1882064 · Answer

Update September 2019

Just saw this problem on Mac OSX. I gave up on yarn for this.

Instead, I ran npm install -g generator-jhipster instead, and everything installed as expected.

❯ jhipster --version                                   

INFO! Using JHipster version installed globally
6.2.0

user_5281237 · Answer

Try with sudo.

sudo yarn global add generator-jhipster

zsh: command not found: jhipster

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