Installing anvil cli

Anvil Q&A
1

Struggling to install anvil-cli.

$ curl -fsSL https://anvil.works/install-cli.sh | sh
Using existing Node.js v25.9.0
Installing anvil-cli...

changed 107 packages in 2s

41 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

anvil-cli installed successfully (v0.5.14)
Next steps: run 'anvil configure' or 'anvil checkout'
If your current shell cannot find 'anvil', open a new terminal session.

$ anvil
anvil: command not found

So I tried this :

$ npm install -g @anvil-works/anvil-cli@latest

changed 107 packages in 1s

41 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

$ anvil
anvil: command not found

Can someone point me in the right direction please? I can’t find any instructions other than those.

2

Did you try in another terminal?

(The installation may setup the startup files for the next session, but not the current one.)

3

Yeah (sorry should have mentioned that). Exactly the same.

I’m not very familiar with node and it’s associated parts. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong but I can’t see what.

edit :

I can see something is installed :

$ npm list -g
/home/user/.anvil-cli/npm-global/lib
└── @anvil-works/anvil-cli@0.5.14

edit 2 :

Ok, this works :

~/.anvil-cli/npm-global/bin/anvil

So it’s clearly not in my path…that’s progress :slight_smile:

Fixed : For future me - added to bashrc manually.

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4

This script is not detecting bash. Probably due to the invocation method. Might be better to just detect which env file to write to in a big if statement (ie if bash write to .bashrc, if zsh … etc).

edit -
something like this?

persist_path_hint() {
    [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ] && append_path_export "$HOME/.bashrc"
    [ -f "$HOME/.zshrc" ]  && append_path_export "$HOME/.zshrc"
}
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5

Ahh yeah, that makes sense. Glad you figured it out, PATH issues are always sneaky.