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I'm trying to initiate astro. When i don't choose a framework i get this error although i have git installed and fully working. Any help will be highly appreciated.

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This seems to be an issue with degit. Please check if you have 'git' installed on your system, and install it if you don't have (https://git-scm.com).  
If you do have 'git' installed, please file a new issue here: https://github.com/withastro/astro/issues
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It depends on your OS and environment.

For instance, withastro/astro issue 2144 reports the exact same error message, but on Windows, using Linux on WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS).
Double-check your %PATH%/$PATH in your execution environment.

Update Oct. 2022, ten month later: withastro/astro issue 2144 is reported closed with the workaround by Matej Bunček:

As I was researching this seems to be a general issue with NPM for those who uses SSH.
There's an open issue here: npm/cli#2610 which is still far from being resolved and it's a huge thread.

Some folks might be interested in these workarounds to get it working.

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

Also I've tried yarn, npm and pnpm, all of them seems to have same problem so I believe it's core problem of node.
Also both npm 6 and 7 are not working.

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Not a direct solution to your error message, but a general solution for those kinds of errors:

I would recommend doing the development inside docker containers, so called devcontainers.

Since you will develop in separate and isolated environments containing only the project's minimum dependencies and tools, it is a lot less likely to face OS specific issues in general.

Here are some resources to get started:

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