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Watchman was not found

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Hello everyone, I am new to react-native. I have already installed watchman using npm but still facing this problem. Also tried some manual installation process for watchman but no luck.

[01/05/2017, 12:56:42] <START> Initializing Packager
Watchman:  Watchman was not found in PATH.  See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html for installation instructions
[01/05/2017, 12:56:42]         HMR Server listening on /hot

React packager ready.

jest-haste-map: Watchman crawl failed. Retrying once with node crawler.
  Usually this happens when watchman isn't running. Create an empty `.watchmanconfig` file in your project's root folder or initialize a git or hg repository in your project.
  Error: Watchman was not found in PATH.  See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html for installation instructions
Watchman:  Watchman was not found in PATH.  See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html for installation instructions
 ERROR  Watchman was not found in PATH.  See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html for installation instructions
{"code":"ENOENT","errno":"ENOENT","syscall":"spawn watchman","path":"watchman","spawnargs":["--no-pretty","get-sockname"]}
Error: Watchman was not found in PATH.  See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html for installation instructions
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:359:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

See http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/troubleshooting.html

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Created 7 years ago
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16reactions

vonovakcommented, Jan 5, 2017

the message is fairly clear: Error: Watchman was not found in PATH. try to google for it, I’m sure you’ll find something

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tirumalavasucommented, Dec 25, 2017

On mac, try to uninstall watchman and install with homebrew. npm uninstall -g watchman brew update brew install watchman

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