unable to run on windows

[verajosemanuel]

installed with no issue in windows gitbash (MYSYS) when running nb i get an error

$ nb
bash: C:\Users\joe\Anaconda3\Library\c\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\npm/node_modules/nb.sh/nb: No such file or directory

[Rooyca]

Do you have Node.js installed? Have you try using WSL?

[verajosemanuel]

Yes. Node.js is installed. WSL is out of the available options

[xwmx]

@verajosemanuel The path separators switch from backslashes to forward slashes in the path to the executable. Is that a factor?

[verajosemanuel]

Not sure. It is just the message when installing and trying to execute nb

[xwmx]

@verajosemanuel I don't currently have access to a windows machine so I'm going off memory and googling.

It's not yet clear to me where the path is coming from exactly. That path might be generated in your npm configuration. The first part is a Windows path, C:\Users\joe\Anaconda3\Library\c\Users\joe\AppData\Roaming\npm, which appears to be a standard location for locally-installed modules on Windows. The rest of the path, /node_modules/nb.sh/nb, is a unix-style path to the executable in a subfolder. This suggests there is code somewhere that is combining a Windows-style path with a unix-style path, then attempting to use it in Bash which expects unix-style paths, causing it to not work.

This path might be generated in an npm configuration file either in Windows or the unix environment running Bash. I recommend looking into that and seeing if you can identify the cause and a resolution. Let me know if this helps!