Spark-cli install error

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Spark-cli install error

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 17 comments

Hi all,

I've been trying to download this package for quite a while, been looking everywhere for answers of problems of problems, trying to resolve this issue bit by bit, but I just couldn't get it to work in the end.

when I run :

npm install -g spark-cli

in the command prompt, I get :

I have also tried running:

node-gyp configure
node-gyp build

but both gave me errors.. Maybe thats part of the issue?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

KarbonDallas commented 10 years ago

thanks!

Answer 1 · 2015-02-19T04:42:39.000Z

Are you on Mac OSx?

Answer 2 · 2015-02-19T04:50:10.000Z

This looks like a problem with node-serialport on windows.

Answer 3 · 2015-02-19T04:53:06.000Z

Definitely steering us to v1.5.0.

Initial test with Appveyor worked well. Haven't spun up windows boxs for 7 and 8.1 so hopefully something soon

Answer 4 · 2015-02-19T05:06:31.000Z

Nope, I am on Windows 8.

Answer 5 · 2015-02-19T05:11:55.000Z

If you are keen can you try this and let us know:
https://community.spark.io/t/spark-cli-on-windows8-1-x64/9997/5

Answer 6 · 2015-02-19T21:19:22.000Z

Changed it to * and ran npm install -g spark-cli again, but got the same error :/

Maybe its the problem with my directories? Ive been moving them around everywhere trying to fix this myself..

Answer 7 · 2015-02-20T00:08:27.000Z

Sorry I might have messed up the command. It should be npm install -g in the js directory.

1.) Download the whole spark-cli again
2.) cd to the js folder
3.) Change serialport version to *
4.) npm install -g

Answer 8 · 2015-02-20T01:12:21.000Z

This is the error I get when I run the command:

Answer 9 · 2015-02-20T01:13:02.000Z

@Voltezk, you don't look like you are in the js directory?

Answer 10 · 2015-02-20T01:25:25.000Z

Sorry! Im still kinda new to this :/

I navigated to js and ran the command and it installed it just fine.

Could you explain what that just did?

Answer 11 · 2015-02-20T01:28:38.000Z

Sure i'm happy to explain further!

1.) Changing the node-serialport version from 1.4.5 to * means "install the latest version" (1.5.0 in this case)

2.) cd to js directory is required as the package.json file to be read by the installer (npm) is inside

3.) You just did a manual installation instead of the automated npm install -g spark-cli which will pull the files from this repository. Reason being the version stated for node-serialport right now is 1.4.5.

Can you verify that it installed properly with the command spark --version?

Also, can you tell us the Windows version and 32bit or 64bit? That will help us a lot!

Answer 12 · 2015-02-20T01:32:58.000Z

Thanks for the explanation!

Unfortunately it still seems to have issues... spark --version under the js directory gives 'spark' is not a recognized as an internal or external command...

Also my Windows is 64 bit :)

Answer 13 · 2015-02-20T01:41:46.000Z

Need some help from the javascript people now!

1.) @emilyrose, i presume this didn't end up in the -g since it's a locally installed directory?

Any way we can have a testing version of Spark-cli with node-serialport 1.5.0 for testing?

2.) @Voltezk, in the mean time, you can cd to bin and use node spark.js xxxxxxx where xxxxxx are your commands. eg. node spark.js --version

Answer 14 · 2015-02-20T01:44:21.000Z

I get this when I run node spark.js --version in bin.

Answer 15 · 2015-02-20T01:57:59.000Z

Conversation and troubleshooting moved here: https://community.spark.io/t/spark-cli-not-installing-on-windows/10096

Answer 16 · 2015-02-25T05:15:41.000Z

@emilyrose, this can be closed with #137 fix as well.