git is not installed or not in the PATH

Question

Windows, when I try to run npm install, it shows:

[email protected] postinstall E:\mean node node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt install Running "bower:install" (bower) task  Fatal error : git is not installed or not in the PATH npm ERR! weird error 1 npm ERR! not ok code 0 

What is the problem? How to fix it?

The project git repository is https://github.com/linnovate/mean

Answer 1

Did you install Git correctly?

According to the Bower site, you need to make sure you check the option "Run Git from Windows Command Prompt".

I had this issue where Git was not found when I was trying to install Angular. I re-ran the installer for git and changed my setting and then it worked.

From the bower site: http://bower.io/

Answer 2

while @vitocorleone is technically correct. If you have already installed, there is no need to reinstall. You just need to add it to your path. You will find yourself doing this for many of the tools for the mean stack so you should get used to doing it. You don't want to have to be in the folder that holds the executable to run it.

• Control Panel --> System and Security --> System
• click on Advanced System Settings on the left.
• make sure you are on the advanced tab
• click the Environment Variables button on the bottom
• under system variables on the bottom find the Path variable

• at the end of the line type (assuming this is where you installed it)

  ;C:\Program Files (x86)\git\cmd

• click ok, ok, and ok to save

This essentially tells the OS.. if you don't find this executable in the folder I am typing in, look in Path to fide where it is.