bug: Custom Appium Home location is not a recognized argument

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

I want to install the Appium Drivers in a path, that is accessible to all users instead of only the current user. I am referring to the reading material provided here (from Appium’s Github reference): https://appiumpro.com/editions/122-installing-appium-20-and-the-driver-and-plugins-cli When I perform any of these commands in PowerShell:

appium -ah C:\Programs\npm driver install windows
appium -ah "C:\Programs\npm" driver install windows
appium --home "C:\Programs\npm" driver install windows
appium --appium-home "C:\Programs\npm" driver install windows
appium --home="C:\Programs\npm" driver install windows

I get an error of the argument not being recognized. See screenshot below:

Expected Behavior

Appium Drivers install in a custom location alongside where Appium 2 via NPM was installed at E.G. Appium is installed in “C:\Programs\npm” and i expect the Appium Drivers to be installed there as well.

Minimal Reproducible Example

All I did was the following through PowerShell with Administrator privileges:

npm i -g appium@next --prefix="C:\Programs\npm"

And then the Appium commands listed above in the ‘current behavior’ section.

Environment

• Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise
• If running via appium CLI…
  • Appium CLI version (output of appium --version): 2.0.0-beta.46
  • Node.js version (output of node --version): v18.12.1
  • npm version (output of npm --version): 8.19.2
  • Last appium version which did not exhibit the problem: N/A
• If running Appium Desktop, its version: N/A
• Appium driver(s) and their version(s): 8.7.3
• Appium plugin(s) and their version(s): N/A
• Platform and version under test: Windows 10 Enterprise
• Real device or emulator/simulator: N/A

Link to Appium Logs

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Futher Information

I want to also install the “uiautomator2” driver in that specific location but I have not tried it yet.

[mykola-mokhnach]

I assume this command line argument has been removed. Have you tried to set the APPIUM_HOME environment variable instead?

[mykola-mokhnach]

Closed because of no response