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Installing Yarn on WSL

Bonnie Simon on December 11, 2020

So I had my harddisk formatted and had to redo all my WSL dev environment setup. I went to the yarn website to install yarn, and was left confused...
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Shay Elbaz

I GET THIS ERROR?

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:928
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module '/mnt/c/Users/User/C:\Users\User.yarn\releases\yarn-1.22.10.cjs'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:925:15)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:769:27)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint as runMain
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: []
}

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TharushiNDewangi

how you fix it

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ondrovic

I had the same issue until I closed the terminal I was working in and reopened it.

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Gray Xu

works for me. thx!

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Ahnert

Thanks so much!

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Eduardo Chavez

thanks man

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ndukachukz

Nice and straight forward

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ANKUR SHARMA

great work for me

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Chavez Harris

This worked perfectly. Many thanks Bonnie.

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Ali Ibrahim

amazing man Thank you !

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Lou Rectoret

You made my day ^^