Having problems installing ionic on Mac

[leob]

I had the same problem on my Mac, this can probably be solved MUCH simpler as described here:

Npm install -g ionic fails

I have exactly this same problem when installing the latest Ionic 2 CLI - an error message containing “ENOENT … ansi”: ENOENT: no such file or directory … ansi-e14136a8 I’m running node 6.9.1 and npm 3.10.8 (these are stable ‘LTS’ versions although not the very latest). I also see a Github issue about this problem, and it also includes a solution: Haven’t tried it but the solution is supposed to be to do a “npm -g remove ionic” first before installing the new version.

So, just issue this command first:

npm -g remove ionic

and then:

npm install -g ionic

Yes and I agree with @rapropos, don’t use “sudo” with “npm” …