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Cross-platform UI for interacting with devices attached to Azure IoT Hub. This tool is meant for learning and testing, not for production environment.
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[BUG] Failed install package: miss matched file name package.json and package-lock.json in the repo #568

Closed SerenaAzsphere1 closed 2 years ago

SerenaAzsphere1 commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Following the instructions: azure-iot-explorer/README.md at main · Azure/azure-iot-explorer · GitHub
  2. Navigate to "Run it locally and build it yourself" -> Open a Node capable command prompt
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-iot-explorer.git
  4. Run: npm install

Expected behavior install package successfully, no error.

Actual result C:\Users\Serena>npm install npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! path C:\Users\Serena/package.json npm ERR! errno -4058 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Serena\package.json' npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\Serena\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2022-11-04T18_03_24_366Z-debug-0.log

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Checked the local folder 'C:\Users\Serena\, I found package-lock.json instead of package. json, ​manually change the package-lock.json to package. json, and run the npm install, no error, is this the expect behavior?

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YingXue commented 2 years ago

I don't think you are in the this project repo. After git clone, please cd into the folder and do npm install there.