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Shopify's 'slate' package not running after installation

I just installed Shopify’s ‘Slate’ package using npm.

Terminal shows that the package was added to ‘/.npm-packages/lib’.
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However, when I attempt to build a new shopify theme using the command ‘slate theme newthemename’, the command isn’t found…
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…even though slate clearly was installed.
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Curious to figure out what I’m doing wrong, so any help/advice is much appreciated!

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    Please execute the below command from your terminal.

    npm link @shopify/slate

    Basically this command creates a symlink to your package folder, it will check for the global (npm) modules first, and will check for the local modules if there is no match.

    Hope this helps!

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    Your installation of slate is successful. However, the slate program (slate/lib/index.js) is not added to environment variable PATH, that’s why error command not found is reported.

    To fix this issue, a simple method is add slate/lib/index.js to PATH manually. For example, create a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin/ and make it point to slate/lib/index.js:

    sudo ln -s /<absolute_path>/@shopify/slate/lib/index.js /usr/local/bin/slate

    Please note the first parameter of ln -s must be absolute path. If relative path is used, Mac OS X (I’m on 10.12.6) won’t help to translate it.

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