wedriverio jenkins - npm command not found error

Question

I am trying to run webdriverio test from jenkins and following this . I installed nodeJS plugin for jenkins and under global tool config, for NodeJS , added a name and installation directory as /usr/local/bin (node executable is in this folder)

In Jenkins, in project config , under build environment, I have checked

Provide Node & npm bin/ folder to PATH and chosen the node installation name from previous step

But when I am trying to run npm install npm test ,by adding these commands under execute shell under Build and building it, I receive this error

Building in workspace /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace/wdio-project
[wdio-project] $ /bin/sh -xe /Users/Shared/Jenkins/tmp/hudson1478028169114509075.sh
+ npm install
/Users/Shared/Jenkins/tmp/hudson1478028169114509075.sh: line 2: npm: command not found
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

Tonettetoney

Answer 1

In case someone is looking for same issue, I resolved the above error by adding export PATH=/usr/local/bin to the execute shell under build. This post helped me

Tonettetoney

Answer 2

There is currently a bug opened about this (JENKINS-26583 and JENKINS-27170)

I could workaround this bug by adding explicitly node on the PATH by adding this line :

export PATH=$PATH:/home/jenkins/.jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/node_js/bin/

Stuartstub

Just a note here that Jenkins home location and the node_js folder may vary depending on your local configuration. "node_js" folder carries the name configured in the Jenkins Global tool configuration. – Mirthamirthful

Answer 3

I had just fixed the same issue as you did. I wonder if my fix would also help you. When I was using the alpine-based docker image, the Jenkins can never find the npm, but when I use the debian-based docker image, problem solved immediately.

Vassallo

Did you do everything you said on mac os? if yes can you please share, how did you install debian based image on mac? – Tonettetoney

@Tonettetoney hi my host machine is a vps with centos 7.0 x64 – Vassallo

@Tonettetoney it might be the problem of permission and installation problem – Vassallo

thanks for commenting. ok, so, then yours was a linux. I am suspecting its not because of debian/alpine. though not fully sure. Was your way of node.js installation same as I described above? can you share if you did something else. I want to see if anything is missing in configuring node.js or in using this installation under build environment tab. – Tonettetoney

@Tonettetoney exactly the same, you could check if the environment path with the command "echo $PATH" and check if the node and npm is under the path directory or not. my problem with alpine is that the path is right and I could find the npm and node uder that directory, but couldnot find them with the command"where is npm" – Vassallo

when i did which npm it gave me /usr/local/bin/npm and I checked /usr/local/bin is in the PATH . I am not sure what else to check. where is npm gives me command not found – Tonettetoney

@Tonettetoney oh, then I dont know how to deal with that – Vassallo

Answer 4

Try this export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

Caraway

Answer 5

After installation of NodeJS restart pc

Hawes

Answer 6

In my case this worked -

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Ventris