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installation on windows

See original GitHub issue

I tried to install decktape on my computer running windows 10 (sorry:)) and the instructions displayed on the README file did not work.

I finally managed to install it running the following command

 npm i -g --production windows-build-tools
 npm install --global node-gyp
 npm install --global node-pre-gyp
 npm i hummus --save
 npm install -g --unsafe-perm decktape

In case this helps

Thanks for this great piece of software

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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astefanutticommented, May 9, 2018

I’ve just added these instructions to the FAQ with c062d1f2405ee367d0439c791db6cfc86a7e6c91.

Let me know if you have any comments and thanks again for getting the bottom line.

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thom4parisotcommented, May 3, 2018

Okay! I installed a Windows10 VM on macOS (thanks iectrl) to dig this a bit further.

On a fresh Win10 machine, the install step is two-fold.

Open a Powershell prompt in Run as administrator to install Visual Studio Build Tools and Python 2.7 :

npm i -g --production windows-build-tools

Open a Node prompt or regular Powershell prompt to install decktape as usual:

npm i -g decktape

Thanks @akakeronos — I’ve learned about windows-build-tools (easiest way to install Node build tools in a Node fashion for Windows) and about the --unsafe-perm flag 😃