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

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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'

Please run `yarn install --verbose`and add the extended information. Are you sure you're running yarn in the right folder (which contains a package.json)? — chaenu, Sep 06 '17 at 10:27
`yarn` is not the package you are looking for. You want `yarnpkg`. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/70184799/301717 — Jérôme Pouiller, Dec 01 '21 at 13:12

score 1231 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 15 '22 at 12:50

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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.

edited Jan 15 '22 at 12:50

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answered Dec 06 '17 at 17:19

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I had the same situation : sudo apt remove cmdtest is the key ! – Cédric Françoys Feb 26 '18 at 12:49
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Had this same issue on Debian WSL on windows 10 and this solution worked for me – Mike Lyons Jul 27 '18 at 21:50
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I was having this same problem on Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10. This solution worked for me too. – Saif Al Falah Sep 02 '18 at 15:54
I just needed to run `sudo apt-get install yarn` – James L. Sep 05 '18 at 16:45
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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` – Kwhitejr Sep 07 '18 at 15:03
On docker, came across this way. Try : RUN curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash – mirageglobe Nov 09 '18 at 18:24
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fixed problem for me on 18.10 – CPBL Jan 18 '19 at 18:00
Running it with `sudo` fixed it for me – Crampus Feb 08 '19 at 12:44
on xubuntu 18 I get error: Err:19 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] – Darius.V Apr 11 '19 at 05:27
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. – pulzarraider Aug 19 '19 at 22:56
Worked for me on 19.04 Dec 2019 – Michael Durrant Dec 29 '19 at 19:36
I have installed yarn using npm and which is very straightforward and easy on ubuntu. sudo npm install --global yarn – mahesh kajale Mar 09 '20 at 07:55
fixed it for me on cloud9 hosted Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS – brownmagik352 Aug 03 '20 at 01:12
This worked for me on elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera (Built on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS). – jurgenizer Aug 08 '20 at 17:46
This information is mostly available in https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#debian-stable – dxvargas Sep 23 '20 at 22:55
I had to also run this command at the end for it to work for me https://stackoverflow.com/a/57748163/3299397 – Kyle Bridenstine Oct 20 '20 at 15:57
Fixed it for me on Ubuntu 18.04 running on an Azure VM – James Shapiro Jan 08 '21 at 12:09
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Saved my day! Confirmed on 20.04 – Nicky Kouffeld Feb 02 '21 at 04:29
Had no effect, same error message afterwards. – nsandersen Mar 28 '22 at 09:59
Worked for me on WSL 2 – Loïs Talagrand Oct 02 '22 at 23:55
This fixed the same problem on Ubuntu 22.04 – dbaltor Aug 02 '23 at 17:50

Emmac · Answer 2 · 2019-02-18T09:15:59.560

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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

edited Feb 18 '19 at 09:15

answered Sep 27 '18 at 10:23

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This was very helpful – Christopher Kikoti Dec 02 '18 at 06:24
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Perfect solution for Windows10 WSL. – Markus Zeller Oct 11 '19 at 06:52
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) – RichS May 17 '20 at 21:37
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After running these commands, I need to close and open a new terminal to see the effects. People who are getting no effect, please open new terminal after this[Ubuntu 20.04] – user404 Jul 08 '22 at 17:23
This one worked for me in Ubuntu 20.04 – Kowsigan Atsayam Dec 13 '22 at 12:09
removing the cmdtest using `sudo apt remove cmdtest` worked for me in ubuntu 22.04. – emkarachchi Sep 02 '23 at 10:12

Vikas Yadav · Answer 3 · 2019-07-16T06:08:21.413

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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.

edited Jul 16 '19 at 06:08

answered Dec 06 '17 at 18:12

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worked for me. I needed sudo on npm, that's the only difference. Ubuntu 18.04 – oma Sep 21 '18 at 13:42
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Do remember to re-open terminal for changes to take effect. – ashishdhiman2007 Mar 14 '19 at 06:33
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Worked for me Ubuntu 18.04 – programmingmusic Jun 10 '19 at 02:02
Thanks you, it worked and `sudo apt remove -y cmdtest` for auto confirm – duyetpt Jun 26 '20 at 17:18
When I run `sudo npm install -g yarn`, I just get this mystifying output: > yarn@1.22.10 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. – Mattias Martens Nov 09 '20 at 22:40
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``` – Mr Kashyap Jan 16 '21 at 16:56

score 60 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 26 '21 at 03:55

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

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
yarn install

edited Mar 26 '21 at 03:55

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answered Feb 17 '21 at 09:24

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Worked on Ubuntu 18.04 too! – Akshay Shah Oct 01 '21 at 05:47
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Thanks for the solution, worked for Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS as well. – Ravi Oct 05 '21 at 07:03
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Worked for ubuntu 22.04 LTS – Hadisur Rahman Apr 25 '22 at 20:27
worked for me too, ubuntu 18.0 thank you! – Dean Van Greunen Mar 15 '23 at 15:56

score 45 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 13 '20 at 10:18

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.

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. — Michael Scheper, May 03 '21 at 15:54
+1, and as https://stackoverflow.com/a/65578819/470749 mentioned, I needed to exit and re-open my terminal before yarn would work. — Ryan, Jul 19 '21 at 19:16
@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. — Guss, Jul 20 '21 at 09:00
the error changed to `bash: /usr/bin/yarn: No such file or directory` in Ubuntu Docker — see https://stackoverflow.com/a/70184799/6404709 — user598527, May 23 '22 at 10:32
@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. — Guss, May 23 '22 at 11:52

Junaid · Answer 6 · 2021-06-18T17:45:50.023

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TL;DR

// Run these commands (Tested on Ubuntu 17.04 & above)
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

Additional Notes:
Check out this official documentation/guide for installing yarn on other Ubuntu versions & to take care of additional cmdtest errors. https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/#debian-stable

If you don't have curl installed you can install it using sudo apt install curl

edited Jun 18 '21 at 17:45

answered Oct 08 '19 at 12:26

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replace `echo...tee...apt-get update` with `apt-add-repository -y "deb ... main"`. – Guss Sep 19 '20 at 22:28

score 23 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 26 '22 at 05:24

Remove mistake packages:

sudo apt-get purge cmdtest
sudo apt-get purge yarn

Install with npm (Recommended way):

It is recommended to install Yarn through the npm package manager, which comes bundled with Node.js when you install it on your system.

Once you have npm installed you can run the following both to install and upgrade Yarn:

npm install --global yarn

Alternative way:

Debian / Ubuntu

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 update && sudo apt install yarn

score 17 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 16 '18 at 18:21

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this worked for me

sudo yarn install

answered Sep 16 '18 at 18:21

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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 – Gebus Mar 08 '19 at 08:12

JimmyTheCode · Answer 9 · 2022-05-31T18:37:57.467

Using Ubuntu 22.04 I had this problem from a fresh install of Ubuntu. The fix that worked for me:

sudo apt remove cmdtest
sudo apt-get remove yarn && sudo apt-get purge yarn
sudo apt update
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 install yarn

yarn --version # 1.22.19

(EDIT: I've tried this subsequently and it didn't initially work. But when I restarted my computer and tried again it did work. Figure that one out...)

Jérôme Pouiller · Answer 10 · 2021-12-01T13:14:22.623

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There is a name conflict for the yarn package (which is currently an alias to cmdtest package). The package you are looking for is yarnpkg. So, try this command:

sudo apt-get remove cmdtest
sudo apt-get install yarnpkg

Unfortunately, with yarnpkg, command yarn is named yarnpkg. You probably want to make an alias:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/yarnpkg /usr/local/bin/yarn

edited Dec 01 '21 at 13:14

answered Dec 01 '21 at 13:08

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`alias`'ng not possible when the `yarn` binary exists: `ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/yarn': File exists` – user598527 May 23 '22 at 10:31
@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 May 23 '22 at 11:45

score 10 · Answer 11 · answered Dec 28 '17 at 16:20

Installing Yarn for Ubuntu 16.04 (not sure if this will be the same as 14.04 as it's slightly different than zappee's answer for 17.04)

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
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
apt-get update
apt-get install nodejs
apt-get install yarn

Then from wherever you installed your sylius project (/var/www/mysite)

yarn install
yarn run gulp

score 10 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 09 '20 at 19:18

For Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS I just followed the official instructions: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install#debian-stable

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 update && sudo apt install yarn

No need to do:

sudo apt remove cmdtest

That is only necessary on Ubuntu 17.04.* I think.

I hope it helps!

jovialcore · Answer 13 · 2021-01-05T12:28:12.790

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I believe all relevant solutions have been provided but here is a subtle situatuion: know that if you don't close and open your terminal again you will not see the effect.

Close your terminal and open then type in your terminal

yarn --version

Cheers!

edited Jan 05 '21 at 12:28

answered Jan 05 '21 at 12:20

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this was the solution to my issue :cheers – Nicholas Jun 27 '22 at 06:39

score 7 · Answer 14 · answered Jan 16 '21 at 16:54

Tried above steps, didn't work on Ubuntu 20. For Ubuntu 20, remove the cmdtest and yarn like suggested above. Install yarn with below commands:

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

score 3 · Answer 15 · edited Feb 11 '21 at 07:46

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Just copy and paste this code one after on your terminal It worked perfectly well 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

edited Feb 11 '21 at 07:46

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score 3 · Answer 16 · answered Feb 19 '22 at 06:31

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If your node version is above 16.10. You can simply run the following to use yarn commands.

corepack enable

If your node version is before 16.10. Run npm i -g corepack before running the above command.

answered Feb 19 '22 at 06:31

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This is the way. Thank you! https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/ Do not forget to uninstall.. whatever the heck that cmdtest and yarn packages are though, as per the other solutions. – Jessie Koffi May 12 '23 at 20:13

score 2 · Answer 17 · answered Jun 18 '19 at 13:41

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Also had this issue (windows), the fix was a complete closure of all terminal instances, then retry.

answered Jun 18 '19 at 13:41

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score 1 · Answer 18 · edited Oct 01 '18 at 17:42

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sudo npm install -g yarnpkg
npm WARN deprecated yarnpkg@0.15.1: Please use the `yarn` package instead of `yarnpkg`

so this works for me

sudo npm install -g yarn

edited Oct 01 '18 at 17:42

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score 0 · Answer 19 · edited Oct 13 '20 at 08:14

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My solution was

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

edited Oct 13 '20 at 08:14

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 16:19

I have installed yarn in different ways and when I run yarn in the console it notifies me that "bash: /usr/bin/yarn: File or directory does not exist". I go to the path /usr/bin and the binary I find is yarnpkg. I runyarnpkg in the console and it installs all the dependencies. Note: all the yarn commands work with yarnpkg. If you have any questions we will continue to see them in the forum

score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Jan 25 '22 at 12:46

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If you are trying to deploy to AWS or any other cloud infrastructure follow the link below

Linuxize this will help solve yarn issue on AWS but still having build time issue thou.

answered Jan 25 '22 at 12:46

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Dec 24 '22 at 11:17

I found this solution , since non of the above worked for me. In my case there was a conflict between the existing file and downloading file So to resolve that I followed the following commands on linux.

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info /var/lib/dpkg/info_silent

sudo mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/info

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -f install <xxxx>

<xxxx> replace it with the required package

score -2 · Answer 23 · answered Oct 23 '22 at 09:22

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i had the same issue on ubuntu os and i solved it by using sudo yarn install instead of yarn install

answered Oct 23 '22 at 09:22

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score -4 · Answer 24 · edited Sep 03 '20 at 08:40

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Run:

source ~/.profile

and try again

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should be a comment not an answer – Leandro Perini Sep 23 '20 at 22:25

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

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