Corepack included in Node 16.9.0, where is it?

[lockHrt]

Hi,
I just installed node v16.9.0 (using nvm-windows) which supposed to include corepack right off the bat. But when I open terminal and typed corepack enable, I'm getting usual error corepack : The term 'corepack' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I searched the whole drive for corepack and didn't find anything. So where is it? Do I still need to install it using npm?

[merceyz]

It seems like nvm-windows isn't including it so you should file an issue in their repo https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/

[coreybutler]

It appears there is no bundle/binary supporting Windows yet. The only available binaries are at https://github.com/nodejs/corepack/actions/runs/276463953.

[richardlau]

I just downloaded https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.9.0/node-v16.9.0-win-x64.zip and it's there.

C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64>dir
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is FA68-A5CE

 Directory of C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64

07/09/2021  08:43    <DIR>          .
07/09/2021  08:43    <DIR>          ..
07/09/2021  08:25            55,012 CHANGELOG.md
31/08/2021  07:00               335 corepack
31/08/2021  07:00               218 corepack.cmd
31/08/2021  07:00             3,032 install_tools.bat
31/08/2021  07:00            84,144 LICENSE
07/09/2021  08:43        59,538,568 node.exe
27/04/2020  21:13               702 nodevars.bat
27/04/2020  21:13            10,630 node_etw_provider.man
07/09/2021  08:43    <DIR>          node_modules
31/08/2021  07:00             1,409 npm
31/08/2021  07:00               483 npm.cmd
31/08/2021  07:00             1,552 npx
31/08/2021  07:00               539 npx.cmd
03/09/2021  07:00            32,636 README.md
              13 File(s)     59,729,260 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  41,669,623,808 bytes free

C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64>corepack
━━━ Corepack - 0.9.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  $ corepack <command>

━━━ General commands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  corepack disable [--install-directory #0] ...
    Remove the Corepack shims from the install directory

  corepack enable [--install-directory #0] ...
    Add the Corepack shims to the install directories

  corepack hydrate [--activate] <fileName>
    Import a package manager into the cache

  corepack prepare [--activate] [--all] [--json] [-o,--output] ...
    Generate a package manager archive

You can also print more details about any of these commands by calling them with
the `-h,--help` flag right after the command name.

C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64>corepack enable

C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64>dir
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is FA68-A5CE

 Directory of C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64

10/09/2021  17:54    <DIR>          .
10/09/2021  17:54    <DIR>          ..
07/09/2021  08:25            55,012 CHANGELOG.md
31/08/2021  07:00               335 corepack
31/08/2021  07:00               218 corepack.cmd
31/08/2021  07:00             3,032 install_tools.bat
31/08/2021  07:00            84,144 LICENSE
07/09/2021  08:43        59,538,568 node.exe
27/04/2020  21:13               702 nodevars.bat
27/04/2020  21:13            10,630 node_etw_provider.man
07/09/2021  08:43    <DIR>          node_modules
31/08/2021  07:00             1,409 npm
31/08/2021  07:00               483 npm.cmd
31/08/2021  07:00             1,552 npx
31/08/2021  07:00               539 npx.cmd
10/09/2021  17:54               315 pnpm
10/09/2021  17:54               210 pnpm.cmd
10/09/2021  17:54               849 pnpm.ps1
10/09/2021  17:54               315 pnpx
10/09/2021  17:54               210 pnpx.cmd
10/09/2021  17:54               849 pnpx.ps1
03/09/2021  07:00            32,636 README.md
10/09/2021  17:54               315 yarn
10/09/2021  17:54               210 yarn.cmd
10/09/2021  17:54               849 yarn.ps1
10/09/2021  17:54               321 yarnpkg
10/09/2021  17:54               216 yarnpkg.cmd
10/09/2021  17:54               861 yarnpkg.ps1
              25 File(s)     59,734,780 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  41,667,641,344 bytes free

C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64>yarn --version
1.22.11

C:\Users\rlau\Downloads\node-v16.9.0-win-x64>

[coreybutler]

This issue really should be closed in favor of coreybutler/nvm-windows#660 (I pulled the upstream-bug tag off, since NVM4W can work with what corepack is supplying in the distro).

[coreybutler]

NVM for Windows v1.1.8 has shipped with corepack support: https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows