Unable to install fresh copy of IONIC

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Hi All,
I was trying to install the latest IONIC CLI version. I completely uninstalled Node.js from windows.
Reinstalled it with NPM.

Now, when i did

  npm install -g ionic

I got the following ouput

c:\>npm install -g ionic
c:\usr\local\ionic -> c:\usr\local\node_modules\ionic\bin\ionic
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: node-pre-gyp@0.6.36 
(node_modules\ionic\node_modules\fsevents\node_modules\node-pre-gyp):
npm WARN enoent SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 
'c:\usr\local\node_modules\ionic\node_modules\fsevents\node_modules\node-pre-gyp' -> 
'c:\usr\local\node_modules\ionic\node_modules\fsevents\node_modules\.node-pre-gyp.DELETE'

added 345 packages and updated 1 package in 24.476s

Now, i am doing

    ionic -v

which is giving

   c:\>ionic -v
   'ionic' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

What am i doing wrong here?
Also tried NVM, where i installed Node 6.11.2 with NPM 3.10.10 and got the same output.

Details:

 node -v : v6.11.3
 npm -v : 5.0.0
 $ npm list -g --depth=0
  C:\usr\local
      +-- ionic@3.10.3
      `-- npm@5.0.0

      npm ERR! missing: node-pre-gyp@^0.6.36, required by fsevents@1.1.2
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Your paths are a bit strange with \usr\local on a Windows machine. Anything we should know about?

One solution: Uninstall your node, install nvm (or nvm-windows if you are on Windows), install a new node (which includes npm) with this, then install ionic and cordova again and try your command again. The problem should be gone.

3

You were right. My path was messed up.

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