When a path issue occurs with the codex cli installed globally via npm

If you install and uninstall it with Homebrew, the paths can sometimes get tangled. In that case: You can simply fix it by changing the npm global prefix path l

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If you install and uninstall it with Homebrew, the paths can sometimes get tangled.

In that case:

npm config set prefix=/opt/homebrew
sudo npm i -g @openai/codex
codex -V
codex-cli 0.88.0

You can simply fix it by changing the npm global prefix path like this.

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