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Asked: 2026-05-28T15:04:21+00:00

I’m a Mac newbie and just upgraded to Node.js 0.67. After running node, the

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I’m a Mac newbie and just upgraded to Node.js 0.67. After running node, the installer says “Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH.”

And I try to run node but as expected, it doesn’t run without the path change.

So not really knowing what I’m doing (yes!), after some research I do this:

export “PATH=/usr/local/bin”

And node runs. But sudo doesn’t. Which I think means I screwed up the environment variables.

sudo: command not found

Then in another Terminal window (that was open when I messed this up), sudo does respond; both windows have the same path. But in that window, npm is no longer available.

Can anyone help get me back to sudo stability?

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  1. Editorial Team

    sudo on a Macintosh lives in /usr/bin.

    Make sure /usr/bin is in your $PATH environment and you should be okay.

    And to do that, in the context of your question above, do something like:

    export "PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin"

    The idea here being that you are appending a new search path to the already existing list in your PATH environment variable.

    Here is a potentially useful tutorial you can refer to.

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