protractor cant find cli.js file

Question

I just installed protractor and the default repo along with webdriver. Every time I run protractor I get this error

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/lib/cli.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:901:3

Not sure how to fix this... any clues?

Possible duplicate of [Error: Cannot find module '../lib/cli'](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29323982/error-cannot-find-module-lib-cli) — guy mograbi, Jun 28 '16 at 15:11
Try using my protractor code generator. It will create an empty protractor project that you can use. The instructions should be easy to follow. If you have feedback to improve the documentations let me know. https://npmjs.org/package/generator-protractor — Andres D, Dec 14 '13 at 03:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '15 at 15:55

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Try to use the following solution :

under Configuration , use this for javascript file = /usr/lib/node_modules/protractor/lib/cli.js

I faced similar issue , it got resolved . I am using WebStorm in linux environment .

Make sure you installed protractor on the global position , by using this command :

sudo npm install -g protractor
sudo webdriver-manager update
webdriver-manager start

answered Aug 25 '15 at 15:55

Ankit Singhal

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it works doe me. with this command "sudo npm install -g protractor" – surya narayana raju g Mar 04 '19 at 11:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '14 at 08:59

Got stuck similarly ... this worked for me. Make sure to have "node_modules" & "node_modules/.bin" in the project folder, you can generate them by running "npm install protractor" on the project root folder and then get rid of it "protractor" folder by running "npm uninstall protractor".

protractor cant find cli.js file

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