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Hi Im trying to get the LessCss command line compiler installed on a Mac.

I've tried

brew install less
Error: No available formula for less

brew install lessc
Error: No available formula for lessc

sudo npm install -g less
..Installs happily..

sudo npm install -g lessc
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lessc
npm http 404 https://registry.npmjs.org/lessc
npm ERR! 404 'lessc' is not in the npm registry.

npm install less --global
..Installs happily..

npm install lessc --global
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lessc
npm http 404 https://registry.npmjs.org/lessc
npm ERR! 404 'lessc' is not in the npm registry.

and all I get is

less js/less/style.less > style-theme.css
-bash: less: command not found

lessc js/less/style.less > style-theme.css
-bash: lessc: command not found

Does anyone have any experience with this?

I found something said my path variable might be messed up. This:

/bin/echo $PATH

gets me:

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin
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How did you install node? Homebrew? –  jibsales Oct 10 '13 at 20:54

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the npm package name for lessc is less

try writing

sudo npm install -g less
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Ya I did that too, I looked at the NPM page. I think my path variable might be messed up. /bin/echo $PATH gets me/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin –  RachelD Sep 21 '13 at 1:53
    
it looks fine, make sure you have lessc in one of those paths, if not search for it and add it's directory to your $PATH –  amdorra Sep 21 '13 at 1:58
    
Thats exactly what Im doing. I've checked in /usr/local but I haven't found where Node was installed yet. –  RachelD Sep 21 '13 at 2:03
    
the path for lessc shortcut on my ubuntu machine is /usr/local/bin/lessc and the actual path is /usr/local/lib/node_modules/less/bin/lessc –  amdorra Sep 21 '13 at 2:10
    
Hmmm When I ls /usr/local/lib/node_modules all I get is npm... I wonder where I'm installing global modules then... –  RachelD Sep 21 '13 at 2:17

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