Generate component at angular

Question

When I execute the command

ng generate component configure-notification/configure-notification-edit --module app 

he gives the following error:

/usr/bin/ng: line 40: exec: generate: not found

before I could create normally...

am using linux Mint, 18.3

the output of the ng --version command

/usr/bin/ng: line 40: exec: --: invalid option
exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments ...]] [redirection ...]

output from file /usr/bin/ng:

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2000 Yasuhiro Take <[email protected]>
# Copyright (c) 1999 Fumitoshi UKAI <[email protected]>
# Copyright (c) 1999 Jacobo Tarrio Barreiro <[email protected]>
# This program is covered by the GNU General Public License version 2
#

if [ -n "$NG" ]; then
  test -x /usr/bin/$NG && exec /usr/bin/$NG "$@"
fi

test -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna
test -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk
test -x /usr/bin/ng-latin && NG=/usr/bin/ng-latin

if [ -x /usr/bin/locale ]; then
  eval `locale`
fi
locale=${LC_ALL:-$LANG}

case X"$locale" in
  Xja|Xja_JP|Xja_JP.*)
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-latin ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-latin
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna
    ;;
  Xko|Xko_KR|Xko_KR.*|Xzh|Xzh_CN|Xzh_CN.*)
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-latin ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-latin
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk
    ;;
  *)
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-cjk ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-cjk
    [ -x /usr/bin/ng-latin ] && NG=/usr/bin/ng-latin
    ;;
esac

if [ -n $NG ]; then
  exec $NG "$@"
else
  echo "Neither ng-latin, ng-cjk, nor ng-cjk-canna found."
  echo "Please install what you prefer."
fi

Thank you.

Answer 1

Edited

Viewing the file /usr/bin/ng realize that you are having package conflict, you have installed on your machine the package ng-common recommend you do the following:

Uninstall the ng-common package and any other dependent packages, and then re-install the angular as I commented below.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove ng-common

---

Reinstallation

Follow commands to uninstall:

npm uninstall -g @angular/cli
npm cache clean --force

After that check with the command: ng-version

If error occurs then you actually uninstalled :)

Then install again :

npm install -g @angular/cli

---

Remarks :

• Using --force you clear all cache

• Utilize sudo ($ sudo <comando>)

• If you are using the npm version smaller than the5 it will be necessary to do the cache check. ($ npm cache verify)