Cypress: Installing cypress on mac - dyld: Library not loaded

[kevinsimper]

I tried to do this but it didn't help

rm -rf /Users/srinuk/Library/Caches/Cypress/

$ ./node_modules/.bin/cypress open
It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 3.2.0

 ✖  Verifying Cypress can run /Users/kevinsimper/Library/Caches/Cypress/3.2.0/Cypress.app
   → Cypress Version: 3.2.0
Cypress failed to start.

This is usually caused by a missing library or dependency.

The error below should indicate which dependency is missing.

https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies

If you are using Docker, we provide containers with all required dependencies installed.
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dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework
Referenced from: /Users/kevinsimper/Library/Caches/Cypress/3.2.0/Cypress.app/Contents/MacOS/Cypress
Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
/Users/kevinsimper/Library/Caches/Cypress/3.2.0/Cypress.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework: file too short
/Users/kevinsimper/Library/Caches/Cypress/3.2.0/Cypress.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework: stat() failed with errno=1
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Platform: darwin (18.5.0)
Cypress Version: 3.2.0

$ node -v
v11.6.0
$ npm -v
6.5.0-next.0
$ which node
/Users/kevinsimper/.nvm/versions/node/v11.6.0/bin/node

Mojave 10.14.4 (18E226)

[jennifer-shehane]

Could you try running npm clear cache or npm cache --force clean as indicated in this issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/10702

Also, can I ask how did you install Cypress exactly?

[kevinsimper]

Hi @jennifer-shehane, thank you for asking 👍

Also, can I ask how did you install Cypress exactly?

I installed it by doing npm install cypress

I will try to do clear cache, it could be added to the error message that comes when it fails :)

[kevinsimper]

It worked by clearing the Cypress cache, the install program must have corrupted the cache there:

$ rm -rf /Users/kevinsimper/Library/Caches/Cypress/

[renekorss]

After clearing Cypress cache like @kevinsimper suggested, I had to install cypress again with:
$(npm bin)/cypress install
After that it worked.

[loadedsith]

This happened to me. My computer locked up and crashed during the first install. I assume it was this crash that caused the corrupted cache (or whatever the issue was/is). I do no think Cypress caused this crash. Thx!

[demisx]

This happened to me when I tried to upgrade from v3.8 to v4.6. These are the steps that eventually worked for me:

npm uninstall cypress
rm -rf /Users/(whoami)/Library/Caches/Cypress/
npm cache --force clean # oh, why not
npm install cypress --save-dev