installation directory of appium in mac

Question

I have installed appium-1.5.1 from MAC terminal. The installation is ok but I need the path where it is installed for some reason. Can anyone please tell me where is the installation directory in?

Answer 1

If you installed the GUI appium app (the app whose icon you can click in your Mac's Launchpad), then as orde suggested earlier, just see /Applications/Appium.app

But if you say you installed appium via your terminal, I'm going to take a guess that you installed it using npm. If you installed appium by typing something like npm install -g appium, then all the below is for you:

You can find the appium executable by typing this into your terminal:

which appium

the output of typing this command in your terminal should be something like this (the path may be different for you):

/usr/local/bin/appium

If 'which' gave you a filepath like this, then this path is your appium executable file (the file that is run if you type 'appium' into your terminal).

If you want to find appium's actual installed files, then take the path you just got above, and run the following command, replacing my path with yours:

ls -l /usr/local/bin/appium

the result of that command will look something like this:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 qamacbook  admin  44 Apr 19 11:07 /usr/local/bin/appium -> ../lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js

the end of this line, after the arrow, is the location of your appium installation relative to the executable file. In my example, the full installation is therefore located at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/

Hope it helps!