Yarn install command error No such file or directory: 'install'

Question

I am installing sylius bundle and while install sylius I need to run yarn install So While I run the command:

yarn install

I get the error:

ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'install'

Solution 1

I had the same issue on Ubuntu 17.04.

This solution worked for me:

sudo apt remove cmdtest
sudo apt remove yarn
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install yarn -y

then

yarn install

result:

yarn install v1.3.2
warning You are using Node "6.0.0" which is not supported and may encounter bugs or unexpected behaviour. Yarn supports the following server range: "^4.8.0 || ^5.7.0 || ^6.2.2 || >=8.0.0"
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...

info Lockfile not saved, no dependencies.
Done in 0.20s.

Solution 2

I had the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04. This was what worked for me:

I removed cmdtest and yarn

sudo apt remove cmdtest

sudo apt remove yarn

Install yarn globally using npm

sudo npm install -g yarn

Solution 3

Note: This solution works well on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 18.04.

Try to remove the existing cmdtest and yarn (which is the module of legacy black box command line tool of *nix systems) :

sudo apt remove cmdtest
sudo apt remove yarn

Install it simple via npm

npm install -g yarn

OR

sudo npm install -g yarn

Now yarn is installed. Run your command.

yarn install sylius

I hope this will work. Cheers!

Edit:

Do remember to re-open the terminal for changes to take effect.

Solution 4

The following steps worked on Pop!_OS 20.10 & ubuntu 20.04

1. sudo apt remove cmdtest
2. sudo apt remove yarn
3. curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
4. echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
5. sudo apt-get update
6. sudo apt-get install yarn -y
7. yarn install

Solution 5

With kudos to all the answers that correctly suggest removing the Ubuntu yarn package and installing Yarn through NPM, here is a detailed answer with explanation (and, be warned, opinions):

The reason for the No such file or directory error from yarn install is that you are not using the "correct" Yarn: the software you get when you install yarn using the Ubuntu software sources is the "yarn" scenario testing tool from the cmdtest blackbox testing suite. This is likely not what you meant as Yarn is also a popular development lifecycle tool for Javascript application (similar to Make, Maven and friends).

The Javascript Yarn tool is not available from Ubuntu software sources but can be installed by NPM (which is another development lifecycle tool that Yarn aims to replace - so that's awkward...).

To make Yarn available in Ubuntu, start by removing cmdtest and its tools:

$ sudo apt purge cmdtest

Then make sure NPM is installed:

$ sudo apt install npm

Then use NPM to install Yarn:

$ npm install -g yarn

Note: using npm install -g will install a Javascript package for your current user account, which should be fine for most purposes. If you want to install Yarn for all users, you can use sudo for the NPM command, but that is not recommended: NPM packages are rarely audited for security in the context of a multi-user operating system and installing some packages might even break when installing them as "root". NPM used to warn against running it with sudo and the main reason it is not doing so today is that it annoys people that use sandboxed "root-like" environments (such as Docker) for building and deploying Javascript applications for single-user servers.

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Comments

[chaenu]

Please run yarn install --verboseand add the extended information. Are you sure you're running yarn in the right folder (which contains a package.json)?

[Jérôme Pouiller]

yarn is not the package you are looking for. You want yarnpkg. See stackoverflow.com/a/70184799/301717

[Cédric Françoys]

I had the same situation : sudo apt remove cmdtest is the key !

[Mike Lyons]

Had this same issue on Debian WSL on windows 10 and this solution worked for me

[Saif Al Falah]

I was having this same problem on Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10. This solution worked for me too.

[James L.]

I just needed to run sudo apt-get install yarn

[Kwhitejr]

Any reason why this solution would not work with docker? I have a base image from Ubuntu 18.04. Running these commands RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add - \ echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list \ apt-get update \ && yes Y | apt-get install --no-install-recommends yarn RUN yarn --version results in yarn version 0.32.0, which fails on basic things like yarn init

[oma]

worked for me. I needed sudo on npm, that's the only difference. Ubuntu 18.04

[mirageglobe]

On docker, came across this way. Try : RUN curl -o- -L yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

[Christopher Kikoti]

This was very helpful

[CPBL]

fixed problem for me on 18.10

[Crampus]

Running it with sudo fixed it for me

[Gebus]

Thank you, it worked for me. The user has to belong to sudo group if you want to get the rights of your user on the folders : sudo usermod -aG sudo myusername

[ashishdhiman2007]

Do remember to re-open terminal for changes to take effect.

[Darius.V]

on xubuntu 18 I get error: Err:19 ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]

[programmingmusic]

Worked for me Ubuntu 18.04

[pulzarraider]

The reason this is happenning is, that when you installed yarn you forgot to run sudo apt-get update after updating the apt sources and before calling the sudo apt install yarn.

[Markus Zeller]

Perfect solution for Windows10 WSL.

[Michael Durrant]

Worked for me on 19.04 Dec 2019

[Albert Rannetsperger]

This fixed my issue. Thank you.

[mahesh kajale]

I have installed yarn using npm and which is very straightforward and easy on ubuntu. sudo npm install --global yarn

[RichS]

On 05/17/2020, this solution worked better for me. On Debian 9.9. The accepted answer still resulted in the OP's original problem. (but I was able to npm i without the sudo)

[Caique Andrade]

It helps me =D a

[duyetpt]

Thanks you, it worked and sudo apt remove -y cmdtest for auto confirm

[brownmagik352]

fixed it for me on cloud9 hosted Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

[jurgenizer]

This worked for me on elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera (Built on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS).

[Guss]

replace echo...tee...apt-get update with apt-add-repository -y "deb ... main".

[Clemen Canaria]

Works for me too. Thank you

[Leandro Perini]

should be a comment not an answer

[dxvargas]

This information is mostly available in classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#debian-stable

[Kyle Bridenstine]

I had to also run this command at the end for it to work for me stackoverflow.com/a/57748163/3299397

[Jakub Ujvvary]

fixed problem on ubuntu 20.04

[Mattias Martens]

When I run sudo npm install -g yarn, I just get this mystifying output: > [email protected] preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn > :; (node ./preinstall.js > /dev/null 2>&1 || true) And no further instruction. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.1 on WSL.

[James Shapiro]

Fixed it for me on Ubuntu 18.04 running on an Azure VM

[kunal pal]

Work like charm.

[Mr Kashyap]

Install yarn using below commands in Ubuntu 20 machines. curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarn

[Saplu]

Tried a million solutions before and this one finally worked. Love you!

[Nicky Kouffeld]

Saved my day! Confirmed on 20.04

[Michael Scheper]

Thanks for this explanation. I prefer not to blind commands I see on StackOverflow, especially when they're used with sudo! I think this should be the selected answer.

[Ryan]

+1, and as stackoverflow.com/a/65578819/470749 mentioned, I needed to exit and re-open my terminal before yarn would work.

[Guss]

@Ryan that is interesting - I believe you need to restart your shell if you just installed npm: the installation modifies the shell startup sequence to add the npm "global" installation directory to the shell PATH, otherwise the shell doesn't see the yarn command installed there. You can check that - if just running yarn doesn't work but ~/.npm-packages/bin/yarn does, then you need to restart the shell to get the PATH updated.

[JayKandari]

Yes this fixed for me as well

[Akshay Shah]

Worked on Ubuntu 18.04 too!

[Ravi]

Thanks for the solution, worked for Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS as well.

[Hadisur Rahman]

Perfect, worked for me too.

[Hadisur Rahman]

worked for me, thanks

[Gorkem]

worked for ubuntu 20.04

[nsandersen]

Had no effect, same error message afterwards.

[Hadisur Rahman]

Worked for ubuntu 22.04 LTS

[Leo]

Worked on WSL Ubuntu 20.04

[user598527]

alias'ng not possible when the yarn binary exists: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/yarn': File exists

[user598527]

the error changed to bash: /usr/bin/yarn: No such file or directory in Ubuntu Docker — see stackoverflow.com/a/70184799/6404709

[Guss]

@user598527 : the /usr/local/bin/yarn should only exist if you already have yarn installed through npm -g or some external process. If that is the case - then you don't need to install yarnpkg. Please note that recent versions of the official Node docker container already include Yarn so you don't need to install it.

[Guss]

@user598527 as noted on that other answer you linked, if you are using the official Node container, you don't need to worry about any of that and Yarn is pre-installed. Otherwise this error message doesn't make any sense - either you triggered a symbolic link to /usr/bin/yarn or you specifically typed it - otherwise the expected error is bash: yarn: command not found. Yarn from NPM is installed in /usr/local/bin, so none of that make sense. If you are still having issues, please provide more details.

[Monero Jeanniton]

Thank you! Your solution has worked for me