Install appium using npm

Thanks to https://www.cnblogs.com/yhitest/p/6011210.html and http://www.cnblogs.com/jiyanjiao-702521/p/9981588.html

The steps are divided into five steps

1. Install node.js

Enter the official website of node.js: https://nodejs.org/ to download the installation package

Follow the prompts and click Next or Continue, you can choose the installation path by yourself

 

2. Verify that node.js is installed successfully

Keyboard win+R key, a pop-up window appears under the computer, enter CMD, then press Enter, a command prompt window appears

Enter the command node -v and press Enter in the window to view the displayed node version number

If the version number is displayed, the installation is complete

 

3. Install appium using npm

In the command prompt window, continue to enter the command to install appium, the command is as follows:

Global installation:

npm install -g appium

Since the mirror of npm is foreign, many packages cannot be downloaded, you can use cnpm, use the mirror of Taobao to install cnpm

npm install -g cnpm --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org

appium-doctor also needs to be installed

npm install appium-doctor -g

Installed.

 

4. Configure the environment variables of appium

Add the following variables in the environment variables

PATH=C:\Users\lenovo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\.bin (directory installed by yourself)

 

5. Verify that appium is installed successfully

Finally, enter in the command prompt window

Appium-doctor

Just verify