I had installed amplify cli on my laptop and even though it threw errors, I had used the amplify configure command anyway and it worked. But now when I'm trying to do the same thing on a different laptop it is throwing the error "-bash: amplify: command not found". Below is the entire error block :
npm WARN deprecated @types/ora@3.2.0: This is a stub types definition. ora provides its own type definitions, so you do not need this installed.
npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
/Users/.npm-global/bin/amplify -> /Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/bin/amplify
> snappy@5.0.5 install /Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/snappy
> node-gyp rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/snappy/build'
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/snappy
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
> zmq@2.15.3 install /Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/zmq
> node-gyp rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/zmq/build'
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/zmq
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
> @aws-amplify/cli@3.11.0 postinstall /Users/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli
> node scripts/post-install.js
Ignore installation errors for optional dependencies: gyp, fs-ext
----------------------------------------
Successfully installed the Amplify CLI
----------------------------------------
Javascript Getting Started - https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/js/start
Android Getting Started - https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/android/start
iOS Getting Started - https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/ios/start
npm WARN @conduitvc/mosca@2.8.3 requires a peer of leveldown@~1.4.3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN @conduitvc/mosca@2.8.3 requires a peer of ioredis@^1.15.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN @conduitvc/mosca@2.8.3 requires a peer of mongodb@~2.1.4 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: snappy@5.0.5 (node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/snappy):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: snappy@5.0.5 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: zmq@2.15.3 (node_modules/@aws-amplify/cli/node_modules/zmq):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: zmq@2.15.3 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1
+ @aws-amplify/cli@3.11.0
amplify commands are working totally fine on the other laptop which spat the same errors as above. I had even tried installing the cli using npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli --unsafe-perm=true as suggested by a user on GitHub. If someone could help me fix this it'd be really great. TIA