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Quality Assurance Introduction to Selenium Test Drive Selenium Installation

Posted by Henry Brenton
Henry Brenton
10,144 Points

Persistent NPM Selenium Webdriver installation error: "npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory"

Hello all,

I've been trying to follow this installation video for several days, and have been unable to successfully troubleshoot nor find a lot of guidance for resolving the problem I'm encountering when installing Selenium Webdriver - the error message(s) are as follows: In the Terminal:

henrybrenton@Henrys-MacBook-Pro ~/SeleniumBasicsHB $ sudo npm install selenium-webdriver Password: npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/henrybrenton/SeleniumBasicsHB/package.json' npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/henrybrenton/SeleniumBasicsHB/package.json' npm WARN SeleniumBasicsHB No description npm WARN SeleniumBasicsHB No repository field. npm WARN SeleniumBasicsHB No README data npm WARN SeleniumBasicsHB No license field.

henrybrenton@Henrys-MacBook-Pro ~/SeleniumBasicsHB $

I'm really not sure as to how I can resolve this issue, and I'd like to progress with the course - some help and advice in finding a solution would be greatly appreciated - apologies if this is a basic error - I'm new to Node and Selenium, and have a lot to learn,

Many Thanks!

Henry

1 Answer

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eck
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eck
eck
43,038 Points

Took a look at the video and the instructor mentions getting the same error because he doesn't have a package.json folder in the directory the install was run from. But this error is a bit misleading, because the node_modules folder is still created and the dependencies installed (you can see with a ls node_modules from the directory you ran the install).

If you don't want the error, you can do an npm init -y in the directory you are using to generate a package.json file with sane defaults.

Edit: I also noticed you used sudo to install the package and I just wanted to let you know that is not recommended to use sudo when installing packages with tools like npm for reasons.