Error fetching release: Request failed with status code 404

[lgdd]

Hi @bnheise 👋 I installed the tool using npm -g install ce-cli and when I run ce-cli init in a workspace I got:

Error fetching release: Request failed with status code 404

About my environment:

Node v14.17.6
NPM 6.14.15
macOS 13.2.1 (Darwin 22.3.0)

[bnheise]

Hmm, that's odd. Npm is trying to download the executable file for mac so it can run the command and it's not finding it. Does your mac have an M1 chip? If so that could be the issue as I don't have a pre-compiled executable for M1 available.

You could try installing Rust and then running cargo install ce-cli. That's much more reliable than the npm method because you're guaranteed to get a version that will work with your hardware.

[bnheise]

You could also try downloading the executable directly: ce-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz. You'll have to manually add it to the PATH though.

[lgdd]

I'm on an Intel one, so I'm matching Darwin and x64 as type and architecture from your JS script. I'll investigate more on my machine to try to figure this out.

[lgdd]

I tested the following Node versions:

❌ v14.17.6 (lts/fermium)
✅ v16.20.0 (lts/gallium)
✅ v18.12.1 (lts/hydrogen)
✅ v19.2.0

And I found out that when install with Node v14, the repository URL in package.json is git+https://github.com/bnheise/ce-cli.git which explain why I got a 404.

[bnheise]

Oh, interesting. I never tried installing with an older version of Node. I should document that.