How do I use the new hyper cli to install plugins and themes?

[stereokai]

• I am on the latest Hyper.app version
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Win 10
• Hyper.app version: 2.0.0
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: https://gist.github.com/stereokai/b1ca15587030a1013e4172d1f2b076ec
• Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on macOS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere):
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Yes

Issue

How do I use the new hyper cli to install plugins and themes?

When I try the command hyper, it is not available in the path. I tried running hyper i <plugin name> from within the folder containing Hyper.exe, but it just opened another terminal instance in the already opened terminal.

It said on the blog that this command came bundled with version 2.0.0. Would appreciate some information on how to use it.

Thanks 💐

[albinekb]

Have you tried rebooting your PC? 😊
I think this is a duplicate of #2823

[stereokai]

How did it not come up in the search >_>

Anyway, it's not even a matter of path variable. If I run hyper i someplugin like I wrote, a new terminal is opened inside the current terminal, instead of running the install command.

[albinekb]

Can you try reinstalling hyper (wipe every hyper.exe you can find)? 🤔 Might be that you have two different versions running.

[stereokai]

Already tried that :(

[chabou]

@stereokai Are you trying to install plugin from WSL?

[stereokai]

Nope. I was trying to run the command from a Powershell instance of Hyper

[zhaobenx]

Same problem on windows.

[hacktivist123]

Hey Guys, You Might Want to run hyper as administrator and then try re-installing the plugin. It should definitely work

[lyiriyah]

thanks @hacktivist123 that really helped!

[hacktivist123]

My pleasure @AtariVSega

[jukefr]

@albinekb rebooting did work but maybe there should be a visual warning at some point in the installation process or a prompt asking to reboot.

[larsgrah]

I have a similar issue on linux, my setup is:

Installed hyper through the AppImage
When I try to install a plugin it just starts another instance of hyper

Tried rebooting already

I am running on Solus

[bryton-jay-smith]

This happened to me - it means that your PATH variable is directed to "%appdata%/local/", but it needs to be set to "%appdata%/local/appXXX/Local\hyper\app-2.1.2\resources\bin\hyper.cmd" in order for it to accept command line options

[Nepoxx]

If you install hyper from the AUR in Arch Linux, the executable you need to use is /usr/lib/hyper/resources/bin/hyper

[serverguyken]

@stereokai You don't need to restart your system, just run Hyper as an administrator and run the command you are trying to, that worked for me.

[stereokai]

Run as administrator is not a friendly solution, why should a simple npm install (that's what hyper plugins are after all) require admin privilege to install?

[ghost]

Happened to me too.

Still happening when I'm launching Hyper in root (either by adding "zensu" in front of the command from the launcher or by trying to launch Hyper myself with a term, always with "zensu" ofc).

If someone have an idea, I'm taking it :)

In the meantime I'll dig where I can.

Edit : I "installed" Hyper with an AppImage file.

[ghost]

I tried the latest build, Hyper-3.1.0-canary.4.AppImage, and it didn't work, but differently (it wants --no-sandbox now when being launch with sudo, and it write more text when launching a new hyper term when I'm typing "hyper i")

[JeroenVos106]

@stereokai You don't need to restart your system, just run Hyper as an administrator and run the command you are trying to, that worked for me.

Worked for me too!!