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Reputation: 528

vue-cli npm install error. ELIFECYCLE ENOENT spawn protobufjs

I am trying to install vue-cli 3 with the given instructions. 

   npm install -g @vue/cli

Environment:

WSL
Ubuntu 18
Node 8.12.0
npm 6.4.1
"n" node version manager

It appears the problem is node's child_process.spawn which is used by the [email protected] postinstall script

See this: child_process.spawn does not work with npm run scripts on windows github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3675

QUESTION is there a way to prevent that postinstal script from running and allowing the rest of the installation and I can somehow run postinstall manually later?

here is the error:

stack Error: [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/postinstall`
stack spawn ENOENT
stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/root/n/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:48:18)
stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:915:16)
stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)
pkgid [email protected]
cwd /mnt/c/Users/dogbot
Linux 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft
argv "/root/n/bin/node" "/root/n/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "@vue/cli"
node v8.12.0
npm  v6.4.1
@6.8.8 postinstall: `node scripts/postinstall`
error spawn ENOENT
error Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3744

Answers (1)

DogBot
DogBot

Reputation: 528

I used the ignore-scripts flag

npm install  @vue/cli -g --ignore-scripts

Then I did the same for protobufjs

npm install protobufjs  -g --ignore-scripts

Finally i manually ran the protobufjs postinstall script

node ~/n/lib/node_modules/protobufjs/bin/scripts/postinstall.js

My installation appears to be working correctly now.

Upvotes: 2

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