Cypress: The Cypress App could not be unzipped at Jenkins

[vasmos]

Hello, trying to run Cypress through Jenkins throws me an error:

Installing Cypress (version: 3.1.0)
[?25l[17:45:21]  Downloading Cypress     [started]
[17:45:23]  Downloading Cypress     [completed]
[17:45:23]  Unzipping Cypress       [started]
[17:45:23]  Unzipping Cypress       [failed]
[?25hThe Cypress App could not be unzipped.

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Error: Target directory is expected to be absolute
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Platform: linux (Debian - 8.11)
Cypress Version: 3.1.0

[?25hnpm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node index.js --exec install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

[vasmos]

Resolved this one myself, you have to specify absolute path to directory on workspace where cypress is unzipped - HOME="${env.WORKSPACE}"

[jsonhp]

Hi, please, can you help me?; how can i specific the absolute path?. Thanks

[itamarsky]

@jsonhp

pipeline {
. . .
 stages {
    stage('build and test') {
      environment {
        CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY = credentials('cypress-example-kitchensink-record-key')
        **HOME="${env.WORKSPACE}"**
      }
. . .