[Linux] Error when create new bot, node not found

Hi, I want to create a new Node Core Bot with Language bit I get an error: Error calling npm to fetch template. Please ensure that node and npm are installed and available on your system. Full error message: Command failed with ENOENT: npm root -g --prefix /home/XXX/BotFrameworkComposer/.yo-repository --loglevel error spawnSync npm ENOENT I’m using Ubuntu 18.04. I have check my node and npm version: npm -v 6.14.11 node -v v14.8.0 but it is still failing. What can I do?

[tonyanziano]

@AdriVazquez @arotena How do you both normally start your .AppImage apps? Do you double click the shortcut after making it executable?

If so, please try starting your Composer installation via the terminal as a workaround.

1. Open a terminal tab
2. Navigate to where Composer is installed
3. run the command ./BotFramework-Composer-<version>-linux-x86_64.AppImage

It seems like there might be some strange case in which double clicking the app to start it might not forward the correct binaries references like npm and node – where as running via the terminal does.

[hatpick]

@arotena the reason you have the original issue is that node is not on your PATH (env variable) when you run Composer normally. In order for nvm to manage multiple versions of node, it needs to keep the executables under .nvm and then add it to current user profile PATH. Ubuntu runs AppImage apps in a different context that does not load your user bash profile. So as a result it’s not aware of the path that nvm uses for executables. To fix that, you need to create a couple of symlinks to make node and npm available for all users:

sudo ln -s `which node` "/usr/local/bin/node"
sudo ln -s `which npm` "/usr/local/bin/npm"

After running these, you can simply double click the app to open.