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brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points
Posted by brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

getting Couldn't open file /Users/Brian/treehouse-vm/base error

C:\Users\Brian ? cd treehouse-vm

C:\Users\Brian\treehouse-vm ? vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... default: Box Provider: virtualbox default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox default: Downloading: base default: An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

Couldn't open file /Users/Brian/treehouse-vm/base

C:\Users\Brian\treehouse-vm ? ls Vagrantfile treehouse

C:\Users\Brian\treehouse-vm ?

2 Answers

brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points
brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

nevermind i figured it out it was down in the subdirectory treehouse in the video the folder treehouse-vm was omitted on extraction mine wasn't. probably the way I extracted it thank you for the help I have it up and running now

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey brian colliflower which treehouse vm zip file did you download? That will help troubleshoot the error.

brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points
brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

it was the zip file off the page which was different than the one on the video but I thought it was just version thing it just says treehouse-vm i cant find a version or read me file i can delete what i have and try extracting it again the other thing is i am doing it on windows 7 as appose to 8 like you and I got some weird warnings on the other downloads but when I tested it like in the video everything worked fine till this step thank you for any help Brian