Expo CLI installed through yarn, but not working

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So I tried installing expo CLI for my react native project. I tried installing it with npm as shown on the official expo.io website, but it didn't work out. So as per the answers from this stack overflow post. It installed with the command yarn global add expo-cli and I got to see this following output.

success Installed "expo-cli@4.0.13" with binaries:
      - expo
      - expo-cli

but to verify whether the installation was successful, I ran the command expo whoami and got the following error.

Command 'expo' not found, did you mean:

  command 'exo' from snap exoscale-cli (v1.22.0)
  command 'expr' from deb coreutils (8.30-3ubuntu2)
  command 'expn' from deb sendmail-base (8.15.2-18)

See 'snap info <snapname>' for additional versions.

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I really don't know what's going on here and how can I get to run expo CLI successfully, a little help for your newbie fellow developer here.

yarnpkg npm expo react-native
2 Answers

Check if expo-cli is properly installed or not using the following code:

yarn global list

Check if expo-cli is added to your path or not using the following code. (Generally, it should be added automatically )

echo $PATH

This will show a list of folders. Look into these folder and try to find expo-cli. If that is not present there then export the path of expo-cli in your .bashrc ( or other dotfile ) using the following

export PATH=$PATH:~/PATH/TO/YOUR/EXPOCLI

Change the "PATH/TO/YOUR/EXPOCLI" to the path of your expo-cli.

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If you're running Windows, follow these steps:

  1. Follow this guide to access the PATH environment variable https://www.maketecheasier.com/what-is-the-windows-path/

  2. Add an entry to the Path environment variable that looks like this: C:\Users\<YourUserNameHere>\AppData\Local\Yarn\bin

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