Couldn't find the 'yo' binary. Make sure it's installed and in your $PATH. Could you tell me what the problem is?

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I'm using npm install -g yo gulp to install yeoman and this is the error I'm getting  
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: cross-spawn no longer requires a build toolchain, use it instead
C:\Usr\local\gulp -> C:\Usr\local\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js
C:\Usr\local\yo -> C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\lib\cli.js
C:\Usr\local\yo-complete -> C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\lib\completion\index.js

> [email protected] postinstall C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo
> yodoctor


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{ Error: Couldn't find the 'yo' binary. Make sure it's installed and in your $PATH
    at notFoundError (C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn-async\lib\enoent.js:8:11)
    at verifyENOENT (C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn-async\lib\enoent.js:43:16)
    at ChildProcess.cp.emit (C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn-async\lib\enoent.js:30:19)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:198:12)
  errno: 'ENOENT',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn yo',
  cmd: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /s /c "yo "--version""' }
× yo version
{ Error: Couldn't find the 'yo' binary. Make sure it's installed and in your $PATH
    at notFoundError (C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn-async\lib\enoent.js:8:11)
    at verifyENOENT (C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn-async\lib\enoent.js:43:16)
    at ChildProcess.cp.emit (C:\Usr\local\node_modules\yo\node_modules\cross-spawn-async\lib\enoent.js:30:19)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:198:12)
  errno: 'ENOENT',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn yo',
  cmd: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /s /c "yo "--version""' }
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npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules\gulp\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

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Answer 1

Run the following command to see where npm puts global packages

npm config get prefix

You'll get output similar to this

/usr/local/Cellar/node/10.5.0_1

Copy the output or path and then using any code editor open your .bashrc or .zshrc file depending on the terminal you use and paste like so

export PATH="$PATH:"/usr/local/Cellar/node/10.5.0_1/bin/""

Then after saving run

source ~/.zshrc