"Please specify npm or yarn package" in PhpStorm/WebStorm when trying to install a new NPM package

Question

Trying to add a new package I get the error below:

Going over settings everything looks good:

Any suggestions where to look next?

Answer 1

You need to specify the path to npm.

go to settings->Languages and Frameworks->Node.js and NPM and click on the ... alongside Node interpreter and then click on ... beside npm package and give the path to npm, in my case it is /usr/lib/nodejs/npm.