# Error message when installing spark-cli on MAC
**URL:** https://community.particle.io/t/error-message-when-installing-spark-cli-on-mac/3570
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [March 22, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/error-message-when-installing-spark-cli-on-mac/3570 "2014-03-22T18:22:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Ruedi](https://community.particle.io/u/Ruedi)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/error-message-when-installing-spark-cli-on-mac/3570/1 "2014-03-22T18:22:57Z")
When i try to install Spark-cli on IMAC with the command "sudo npm install -g spark-cli" I get below error message. Any idea?
npm http 304 [https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap](https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap)
> serialport@1.3.1 install /usr/lib/node\_modules/spark-cli/node\_modules/serialport
> node-gyp rebuild
/usr/lib/node\_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin/node-gyp: line 2: node: command not found
npm ERR! serialport@1.3.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 127
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the serialport@1.3.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the serialport package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls serialport
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Darwin 13.1.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "spark-cli"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/Ruedi
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.26
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.6
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm http 304 [https://registry.npmjs.org/hoek](https://registry.npmjs.org/hoek)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/Ruedi/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
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### Author:  [@KyleG](https://community.particle.io/u/KyleG)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/error-message-when-installing-spark-cli-on-mac/3570/3 "2016-10-12T23:46:55Z")