[Error?] No installation started, no downloads started after installing Node.js and running npx dalai llama 65B

[profinger]

It seems to start the install as I see some IdealTree output but then it just exits. No further explanation, no errors, nothing installed, nothing downloaded.

I am on Windows 10 and just installed Node.js 18.15.0 and npm recommended upgrading to 9.6.1 but aside from that I've seen this do nothing.

It's worth noting that the same thing happens when running only npx dalai llama instead of specifying a model

[aflah02]

Same issue on my end

[lrvl]

See https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai/issues/26

[Kulinark]

In my case, deleting the directory "C:\Users<your_user_name>\dalai" and running the script again helped

[thespillmonkey]

For those struggling with installing on ubuntu (it drops drops out) you need the following packages (can install with sudo apt install XXX)....

build-essential pip python3.10-venv

python3.10-venv was the package that was killing me.

You also need to install node v18 or 19. Ubuntu's base repo installs 12. Google "install node v18 ubuntu" it is simple.