# Error installing Sense Plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163 "2016-08-29T09:31:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ash.vaidya94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@ash.vaidya94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ash.vaidya94)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163/1 "2016-08-29T09:31:00Z")

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Hi,  
I've installed elasticsearch 2.3.5 and kibana 4.5.4  
I manually downloaded the sense beta7 tar file, and tried installing using the command  
bin/kibana plugin -i sense -u file:///PATH\_TO\_SENSE\_TAR\_FILE  
However, i get a long list of errors saying:

ERROR in ./src/plugins/metric\_vis/public/metric\_vis.less  
Module build failed: Error: Cannot find module 'color-name'  
at Function.Module.\_resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)  
at Function.Module.\_load (module.js:276:25)  
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)  
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)  
ERROR in ./src/ui/public/stringify/editors/color.less  
Module build failed: Error: Cannot find module 'color-name'  
at Function.Module.\_resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)  
at Function.Module.\_load (module.js:276:25)  
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)  
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

...and so on.  
Can't understand what the problem could be, please advise!

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163/2 "2016-08-29T17:41:47Z")

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This is weird. The error is pointing to a file in the Kibana file path, which controls the style for Metric visualization - it has nothing to do with Sense. It's happening because when you install a plugin in Kibana, it kicks in the optimizer which bundles all the front-end code into browser-friendly files.

In Kibana 4.x, there is no `color-name` in the source code anywhere in Kibana, not for Metric visualization or anywhere else.

Is this a customized installation of Kibana?

Can you check your `./src/plugins/metric_vis/public/metric_vis.less` file and compare it to [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/v4.5.4/src/plugins/metric\_vis/public/metric\_vis.less](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/v4.5.4/src/plugins/metric_vis/public/metric_vis.less)

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**Author:** ![ash.vaidya94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@ash.vaidya94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ash.vaidya94)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163/3 "2016-08-30T04:19:30Z")

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Hi, thanks for the help. Im using kibana 5 alpha now, with the built in console. So don't think I need Sense.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163/4 "2016-08-30T11:03:54Z")

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You don't 🙂

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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, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-sense-plugin/59163/5 "2017-07-06T13:39:58Z")

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