# Node-Red Installation Error

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738>\
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**Created:** [5 July 2022 17:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738 "2022-07-05T17:55:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrunoBenini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrunoBenini](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BrunoBenini)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 17:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/1 "2022-07-05T17:55:51Z")

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I'm trying to install node-red but this error appears every time.  
What can I do?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/1/5/155d8eadccf4dedbb1126c8e399179f6b3c9bfc2.png)

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 18:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/2 "2022-07-05T18:09:30Z")

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That isn't an error, you can ignore it.

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**Author:** ![BrunoBenini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrunoBenini](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BrunoBenini)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 18:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/3 "2022-07-05T18:28:16Z")

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i know that isn't a error, but the node-red didn't open.

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 18:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/4 "2022-07-05T18:44:25Z")

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The error IS listed there, according to my google translate it is telling you that the shell command "node-red" does not exist.

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**Author:** ![BrunoBenini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrunoBenini](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BrunoBenini)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 19:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/5 "2022-07-05T19:39:05Z")

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To open node-red just type node-red in system32 that it starts when it is installed.  
But it doesn't open because I can't install because of this error.

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**Author:** ![UnborN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4491bb/32.png) [@UnborN](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/UnborN)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 19:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/6 "2022-07-05T19:44:37Z")

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What do you get when you run

`node --version`

and

`npm list -g node-red`

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2022 19:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/7 "2022-07-05T19:49:08Z")

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When installed on Windows, the node-red install will create `node-red.cmd` and `node-red.ps1` files in the global .bin folder. You should be able to see where those are with `whereis node-red` under PowerShell.

If that isn't being found, it implies that possibly node.js hasn't completed its installation correctly or possibly you didn't close and reopen the command line after installation. I've certainly had the occasional issue with that in the past.

Make sure that your path env contains `C:\Program Files\nodejs\` and `C:\Users\julia\AppData\Roaming\npm`

Here are a couple of outputs from whereis for globally installed npm packages (I don't globally install Node-RED so I can't show that):

```auto
C:\src\nr
> whereis gulp
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\gulp
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\gulp.cmd
C:\src\nr
> whereis node-red-dev
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node-red-dev
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node-red-dev.cmd
C:\src\nr

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [3 September 2022 19:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-error/64738/8 "2022-09-03T19:49:32Z")

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