title: bower command not returning anything
body: <p>I've been trying to install bower, but I must be missing something cause the command bower is not returning anything at all!</p>
  
  <p>I installed bower like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo npm install bower -g
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is the output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tmp
  ...
  ...  # Many requests here n_n
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/traverse
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/traverse
  /usr/bin/bower -&gt; /usr/lib/node_modules/bower/bin/bower
  bower@0.8.5 /usr/lib/node_modules/bower
  ├── stable@0.1.3
  ├── archy@0.0.2
  ├── colors@0.6.0-1
  ├── tmp@0.0.16
  ├── async@0.2.6
  ├── mkdirp@0.3.5
  ├── semver@1.1.4
  ├── request@2.11.4
  ├── hogan.js@2.0.0
  ├── lodash@1.0.1
  ├── rimraf@2.0.3 (graceful-fs@1.1.14)
  ├── nopt@2.0.0 (abbrev@1.0.4)
  ├── fstream@0.1.22 (inherits@1.0.0, graceful-fs@1.2.0)
  ├── promptly@0.1.0 (read@1.0.4)
  ├── tar@0.1.16 (inherits@1.0.0, block-stream@0.0.6)
  ├── read-package-json@0.1.13 (graceful-fs@1.2.0, lru-cache@2.0.4, slide@1.1.3, npmlog@0.0.2)
  ├── rc@0.0.8 (config-chain@0.3.3, optimist@0.3.5)
  ├── glob@3.1.21 (inherits@1.0.0, graceful-fs@1.2.0, minimatch@0.2.11)
  └── unzip@0.1.4 (buffers@0.1.1, over@0.0.5, pullstream@0.1.0, setimmediate@1.0.1, readable-stream@0.2.0, binary@0.3.0)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>seems ok..</p>
  
  <p>but then I do <code>bower --help</code> and nothing happens, it doesn't show anything.. I've even tried a <code>sudo bower --help</code></p>
  
  <p>My nodejs version is v0.8.22 , npm version 1.2.14 on Ubuntu 12.10</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?? thanks in advance</p>