Azure-functions-core-tools: Cannot install on Mac

[buragc]

I am trying to install the cli on my mac using the following:

npm i -g azure-functions-core-tools@core

It is failing with the following message:

npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"win32","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"darwin","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    win32
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  any
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   darwin
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64

[ahmelsayed]

/cc @mamaso

can you make sure your node version >= 8.4.0? It looks like our package has that dependency now and it's messing with npm version resolution for some reason. I think it's trying to give you the latest that supports your node engine version or something, but it's falling back to a pretty old version.

We will remove that restriction from the package

[ahmelsayed]

and the version you want is 2.0.1-beta.17, not 1.0.0-beta.100 which is very old

[buragc]

@ahmelsayed I am running node v8.4.0.

One thing I noticed is that if I install locally (without the -g flag) it resolves to the correct version 2.0.1-beta.17 but when -g flag is used, it falls back to v1.0.0-beta.100

I tried uninstalling this version from global packages with npm uninstall -g azure-functions-core-tools however, I get the same error described above. So it looks like I cannot uninstall or upgrade this package globally at the moment.

[ahmelsayed]

can you try

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/azure-functions-core-tools # or where ever your global npm packages go

# then
sudo npm i -g azure-functions-core-tools@core --unsafe-perm

_--unsafe-perm docs_

[ahmelsayed]

an alternative to --unsafe-perm (if you don't want to run install script as root) is to do

npm config --global set user $(whoami | id -u)

that should tell npm to run the install scripts as your UID instead of nobody, though this will affect any package you install with sudo.

[buragc]

Just to close the loop. The only thing that worked was the

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/azure-functions-core-tools # or where ever your global npm packages go

# then
sudo npm i -g azure-functions-core-tools@core --unsafe-perm

I was able to install with this.