Make Installation of Velocitas CLI work outside of DevContainer

[eriksven]

Severity

Critical

What release version, tag or commit-hash did you use?

v0.5.0

Current Behavior

I would like to install the velocitas-cli as described in the Readme and execute:

npm install -g velocitas-cli in the root-directory of the checked out repository.

The result is

cli % npm install -g velocitas-cli npm ERR! code E404 npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/velocitas-cli - Not found npm ERR! 404 npm ERR! 404 'velocitas-cli@*' is not in this registry. npm ERR! 404 npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

Steps to Reproduce

1. git clone https://github.com/eclipse-velocitas/cli.git
2. cd cli
3. npm install -g velocitas-cli

Expected Behavior

Veloctias-CLI is globally installed on my machine

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information

I tried this with the following versions and got the same result:

Node: v20.5.1, NPM: 9.8.0
Node: v18.17.1, NPM: 9.6.7

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's "Code of Conduct".

[BjoernAtBosch]

Hi Eriksven,
using the Velocitas CLI outside a devContainer isn't supported by us currently.
So, please use the CLI from within a running devContainer, e.g. of vehicle-app-python-template or vehicle-app-cpp-template or "instances" of it.
I will mark this as an possible enhancement.
Best regards
Bjoern

[eriksven]

I see, my hope was to be able to bootstrap a new Velocitas project with the CLI from the local command line only, instead of copying the repository from the template. Marking it as enhancement sounds good.

[doosuu]

Hi @eriksven did you try to run npm i -g . within the cli directory? Explicitly passing a package name like velocitas-cli in your example above will force a lookup on npmjs.com's database. Unfortunately the CLI is not available via npmjs, yet.

[doosuu]

Hi @eriksven where you able to test it? For me, on my mac outside of a devcontainer, I can successfully install the CLI using

npm i .
npm i -g .

[erikbosch]

The commands below worked for me on a Debian VM. Without "sudo npm run build" the I could still run velocitas but there were no commands

sudo npm run build
sudo npm install -g

erik@debian6:~/vehicle-app-cpp-template$ velocitas
Lifecycle management of Velocitas Vehicle Applications

VERSION
  velocitas-cli/0.0.0 linux-x64 node-v18.19.0

USAGE
  $ velocitas [COMMAND]

TOPICS
  cache      Interact with the project cache
  component  Interact with project components

COMMANDS
  create   Create a new Velocitas Vehicle App project.
  exec     Executes a script contained in one of your installed components.
  init     Initializes Velocitas Vehicle App
  package  Prints information about packages
  sync     Syncs Velocitas components into your repo.
  upgrade  Updates Velocitas components.