Install Yarn packages globally

With npm, we can easily install the package globally by passing -g flag with administrative rights. But when I tried with yarn global add it showed me command not found. After digging around. I found I haven’t specified yarn path in my .bashrc file. If you’re using different shell like zsh or something, the file name will change.

I quickly opened the .bashrc file and added the below line in bottom.

PATH=$PATH:/home/USERNAME/.yarn/bin

Make sure to change the USERNAME with your actual username which you can get by running whoami in your terminal.

After pasting in the file and closing it. I ran this command.

yarn global bin

After all these, I tried running the package command. This time it ran smoothly.

Hope it works for you.

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