Proxy build fails on Ubuntu

System OS: Ubuntu OS version: 16.04 Platform: x86 Kui version: v8.12.2/master node version: v12.16.1 npm version: 6.13.4

Describe the bug After building KUI on Ubuntu 16.04, I tried to create proxy docker image using the steps from https://github.com/IBM/kui/tree/master/packages/proxy#building-the-proxy. But I got the following error:

amit@amit-vm:~/work/kui/packages/proxy$ ./build.sh
staging directory: /home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/kui-proxy-tmp/kui
staging directory /home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/kui-proxy-tmp
no prescan override
tar copy to /home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/kui-proxy-tmp from /home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy
nothing to do
/home/amit/work/kui/node_modules/.bin//kui-build-headless: line 147: cd: /home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/node_modules/@kui-shell/client: No such file or directory
Building headless dist to /home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/kui-proxy-tmp/kui
cp: cannot stat '/home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/kui-proxy-tmp/kui/node_modules/@kui-shell/builder/dist/bin/kui.cmd': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'kui/node_modules/@kui-shell/core/bin/*': No such file or directory
removed 1 package in 0.281s
mv: cannot move 'kui/prescan.json' to 'kui/node_modules/@kui-shell/prescan.json': No such file or directory
find: ‘kui/node_modules/@kui-shell/!(test)’: No such file or directory
find: ‘kui/node_modules/@kui-shell/!(test)’: No such file or directory
Cleanup
cp: cannot stat '/home/amit/work/kui/packages/proxy/node_modules/@kui-shell/builder/../proxy/package.json': No such file or directory

Steps to reproduce the behavior

git clone https://github.com/IBM/kui.git
cd kui
npm ci
npm run watch
export PATH=~/work/kui/node_modules/.bin/:$PATH
cd packages/proxy
export KUBE_VERSION=v1.19.0
npm install
./build.sh

Expected behavior A docker image named kui-proxy should be created.

Please help me resolve this. Thanks in advance!

[amitsadaphule]

Mounting local ~/.kube directory inside the container makes kubectl commands work. Command used:

docker run --rm -v /root/.kube:/root/.kube -p 9080:80 -e DEBUG=* kuishell/kui

Closing the issue.

[starpit]

thanks very much for the sharing the additional information. much appreciated!