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weston
weston

Reputation: 54811

TFS build agent cannot locate npm

On a locally hosted TFS I'm using the "npm install" build step in my build definition.

On the agent machine I have installed nodejs and can run npm from the command line.

When I attempt to queue the build I get a pop up with the message:

No agent could be found with the following capabilities: npm, DotNetFramework

So I attempted to add the capability, first by refreshing the agent capabilities and when that had no effect I added a capability:

npm C:\Program Files\nodejs

Then the build starts but the npm step throws the error:

Unable to locate npm

I suspect I have missed something on my agent set up because the agent is not reporting its npm capability?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 9180

Answers (2)

Krishan Kumar Gorav
Krishan Kumar Gorav

Reputation: 57

I have installed all missing tools and then restarted the build agent. But this is not working as new capabilities (npm, node, visyal studio etc) are not getting identified by above steps. Finally I restarting the machine and that has resolved this issue for me.

Upvotes: 0

weston
weston

Reputation: 54811

I had to restart the VSO agent service, allowing the new capability to be reported.

Upvotes: 29

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