'ncu' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[lorenzosjb]

Please include the ncu path to the install process because after installing in Windows 7 without any errors and executing ncu command. This is my output. Thanks for the help.

C:\Users\jimenelo>npm install -g npm-check-updates
C:\Users\jimenelo\AppData\Roaming\npm\ncu -> C:\Users\jimenelo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm-check-updates\bin\ncu
C:\Users\jimenelo\AppData\Roaming\npm\npm-check-updates -> C:\Users\jimenelo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm-check-updates\bin\npm-check-updates
C:\Users\jimenelo\AppData\Roaming\npm
`-- [email protected]

C:\Users\jimenelo>npm -g ls --depth=0
C:\Users\jimenelo\AppData\Roaming\npm
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
`-- [email protected]

C:\Users\jimenelo>ncu
'ncu' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[raineorshine]

Hi, thanks for reporting! A couple questions.

Is npm-check-updates not found as well?
Does the same problem occur for any global npm module, or just ncu?

[arturparkhisenko]

@raineorshine got the same error today, win10pro, node v6.6.0, npm 3.10.3.
Either ncu or npm-check-updates aren't found (global ofc).
npm list -g --depth=0 shows that [email protected] is installed, and i already tried to reinstall it.

Wow.. maybe it's not fault of npm-check-updates, i found that bower and etc not working too).. looking why.
Repaired NodeJS and everything works fine. Thanks)

[raineorshine]

Okay, closing :)

[PixelWeaver]

@raineorshine got the same error today, win10pro, node v6.6.0, npm 3.10.3.
Either ncu or npm-check-updates aren't found (global ofc).
npm list -g --depth=0 shows that [email protected] is installed, and i already tried to reinstall it.

Wow.. maybe it's not fault of npm-check-updates, i found that bower and etc not working too).. looking why.
Repaired NodeJS and everything works fine. Thanks)

What do you mean by repairing NodeJS ? Did you uninstall/reinstall ?

[arturparkhisenko]

@PixelWeaver I've found I had multiple NodeJS versions and I suppose it was required to switch from one to another after a brew update. And maybe one of the second issues I have found was that in my shell config file (ex.: .zshrc) I did the wrong PATH export (now every time I Install NodeJS it asks me to do a new export, where I also should remove the previous one.

[abhi007tyagi]

Either ncu or npm-check-updates aren't found after installing!

PS E:\Abhinav_Workspace\NodeProject> ncu
ncu : The term 'ncu' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• ncu

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (ncu:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  
  

PS E:\Abhinav_Workspace\NodeProject> npm-check-updates
npm-check-updates : The term 'npm-check-updates' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:1 char:1

• npm-check-updates

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (npm-check-updates:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  

[Flexxkii]

Either ncu or npm-check-updates aren't found after installing!

PS E:\Abhinav_Workspace\NodeProject> ncu
ncu : The term 'ncu' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• ncu

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (ncu:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  

PS E:\Abhinav_Workspace\NodeProject> npm-check-updates
npm-check-updates : The term 'npm-check-updates' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:1 char:1

• npm-check-updates

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (npm-check-updates:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  

You need to install npm-check-updates globally
So
npm install -g npm-check-updates

now do
ncu

[pekumar7]

Same thing happening for me on windows .. @Flexxkii -installed successfully ( install npm-check-updates globally--> + [email protected]) but ncu not working.. Please advise..

[hermit-Z]

hello everyone, I have corrected this problem with the following instructions:
sudo npm install -g npm-check-updates

[hosseinGanjyar]

I had this problem and solved by this solutiob:

Run npm config get prefix and check the correct npm path first and append the output to the PATH using command or adding manually.

npm config get prefix => C:\mydev\tools\npm\npm

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\mydev\tools\npm\npm

[naveen106]

Can you please elaborate, what is this PATH? Is it environment variable in system settings? I tried running your those 2 lines of yours, first ran, but second didn't.