What's wrong with my typescript compiler? `tsc --version` returns nothing

In my case on Ubuntu 16.04 the problem was because of I performed sudo apt-get install node-typescript, which delivered me broken tsc. After removing it via apt-get remove and then installing as recommended with npm install -g typescript, it worked fine.

Maybe this will help someone.

I discovered that running node --version returns nothing (but shouldn't) however nodejs --version works (the result being v0.10.25). Reinstalling node didn't fix this. I don't know why this would be the case, as I think I followed the recommended installation procedure.

However, editing file /usr/local/bin/tsc and changing the line:

#!/usr/bin/env node

to

#!/usr/bin/env nodejs

seemed to work. Now tsc --version returns message TS6029: Version 1.6.2 and I'm getting .js files generated when I run make.