# Cannot launch kibana 4.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-launch-kibana-4-2/34133>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 9, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-launch-kibana-4-2/34133 "2015-11-09T09:06:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![comdiv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/comdiv/32/44902_2.png) [@comdiv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/comdiv)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-launch-kibana-4-2/34133/1 "2015-11-09T09:06:46Z")

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Every time i start kibana.exe it aborted with following error

C:\kibana\bin\>kibana.bat  
module.js:338  
throw err;  
^  
Error: Cannot find module 'C:\kibana\src\cli'  
at Function.Module.\_resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)  
at Function.Module.\_load (module.js:278:25)  
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)  
at startup (node.js:129:16)  
at node.js:814:3

Was installed by simple unzip official downloaded package

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**Author:** ![comdiv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/comdiv/32/44902_2.png) [@comdiv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/comdiv)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-launch-kibana-4-2/34133/2 "2015-11-09T09:12:59Z")

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Sorry it was xcopy-ed before unzip success...

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-launch-kibana-4-2/34133/3 "2017-07-06T14:09:31Z")

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