Hi i unable to install the firebase tools via commandline in the windows
im using this below command
npm install -g firebase-tools
after entering this command i m getting this below error
npm ERR! path C:\Users\data\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules
npm ERR! code ELOOP
npm ERR! errno -4067
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, mkdir 'C:\Users\data\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules'
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\data\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-01-20T13_22_41_404Z-debug.log
Actually you can try installing the
npm i -g firebase-tools@v3.16.0
version and try to install the
npm install windows-build-tools
**in your local folder and after that install
**npm install node-gyp
in your local folder and before doing all these try to disable your antivirus
Latest version seems to have a problem.
Try installing one previous version:
npm i -g firebase-tools@v3.17.2
UPDATE:
Before doing so, it might be better to uninstall faulty one:
npm uninstall -g firebase-tools
also make sure you have windows-build-tools
installed (though I have it on my machines, error you share doesn't really seem to be related to this)
npm --add-python-to-path='true' --debug install --global windows-build-tools
UPDATE 2
I've updated my Node & NPM versions and then to latest Firebase Tools.
Still getting WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1
error, but since it's a warning, I've decided to give it a try. So far no problems.
UPDATE 3
windows-build-tools
package got an update yesterday so I installed it with hope it solves problems installing latest version of firebase-tools
. It did not, same errors occur.