Issue installing Edge Impulse CLI on Ubuntu 20.04

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#1

Hello ,
I am unable to install Edge impulse CLI on Ubuntu 20 , please help
heres the reult after running command.

npm install -g edge-impulse-cli
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see
npm WARN deprecated request-promise@4.2.6: request-promise has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated @zeit/dockerignore@0.0.5: “@zeit/dockerignore” is no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade to version 7 or higher. Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic. See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /home/san/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/edge-impulse-cli
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /home/san/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/edge-impulse-cli
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, access ‘/home/san/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/edge-impulse-cli’
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/san/.npm/_logs/2021-07-06T19_15_35_009Z-debug.log

#2

Manually delete the edge impulse folder from node_modules and try to reinstall.

use “cd ~.npm-global/lib/node_modules”

then “rm edge-impulse-cli”
and " npm install -g edge-impulse-cli@latest"

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#3

Thankyou it is working!

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#4

Thank you @Sanyam ! I have added your steps to our CLI installation troubleshooting doc here: https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/docs/cli-installation#enoent-no-such-file-or-directory-access-npm-globallibnode_modulesedge-impulse-cli-linux

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