Installing getpapers globally

[abannachbrown]

There seems to be an issue with installing the getpapers. When i install the npm package globally (using the command "npm install -global getpapers") on windows 7 the cli hangs indefinitely (as shown). I have only noticed this problem today as it was working fine yesterday.

The same issue occurs on another machine (running windows 10).

[tarrow]

Hi!

Can you try with --global? (two minus signs)

[abannachbrown]

Hi Thank you for the suggestion. The cli still hangs indefinitely. I've tried this also the other machine (windows 10) with the same result.

[abannachbrown]

I think the issue might be with the latest update 0.4.6. getpapers v 0.4.5 has no issues installing.

[tarrow]

interesting.. How are you installing v0.4.5?

[chrissena]

I can confirm i have had exactly the same issue on windows 10. Have got it to work using

npm install --global getpapers@0.4.5

[abannachbrown]

i've installed v0.4.5 using the command npm install --gloabl getpapers@0.4.5 and can successfully execute a getpapers command and download full texts.

[tarrow]

I can replicate your problem on windows 7. I'll try and figure out what has changed between the two versions and implement a fix. I guess it is some bug in npm rather than on our side but perhaps we can find a workaround.

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i've installed v0.4.5 using the command npm install --gloabl getpapers@0.4.5 and can successfully execute a getpapers command and download full texts.

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[tarrow]

Sorry that is has taken me a while to get to the bottom of this but I think the problem is that 0.4.6 is a bad release. I think lots of files have accidentally been packaged up with the release. Perhaps so many (or ones with such a long path name) that it breaks on windows.

I've asked @blahah to take a look at this and cut another release when he gets a chance.

[blahah]

Ah yes, looks like I accidentally included my testing files in the release. Sorry for the trouble. I'll cut another release now.

[blahah]

New version 0.4.7 pushed, with all the extra files removed. Can anyone with a Windows machine confirm whether this fixes the install issue?

[tarrow]

Yep! install issue all fixed! Thanks!