Express command not working in terminal

Question

I am kind of new to node.js. I installed node fine and it works. I can run the node command in the terminal as well as the node package manager command(npm). Working on a Mac by the way. So I installed express globally with the following command:

sudo npm install -g express 

After I was done installing it globally I installed it in a small folder where I am working on a project.

sudo install express 

That gave me a node_modules folder inside of my site folder. After I was done that I went to install stylus using the express command and I got the error that express is not a command.

express -c stylus 

Can anyone shed some light on this issue? I also tried to link the global express to the folder where I am working on the project using the following command:

sudo npm link express 

The terminal said that this command ran, but I still cannot run the express command.

Answer 1

Thanks for asking questions on this one. I found that running express-generator instead of just express fixed the problem. The following code in the terminal worked.

sudo npm install -g express-generator 

Thanks again,

Answer 2

If your express binary keeps doing nothing. Install node-legacy:

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy