Issue with installation of latest version of Kibana from git repo

roshan91 · April 30, 2020, 12:21pm

Took Kibana code from the git repo. When installing, I am getting an error "unable to find usable node.js executable". I am working in Mac OS 10.13.
I could see the node version mentioned in code as 10.19, but still giving me same error.. I tried with node versions 10.18, 10.19 and latest node version..
can you please help be identify the issue...

Mikhail_Shustov · April 30, 2020, 1:05pm

Hi, Roshan. It looks like you try to run Kibana via ./bin/kibana which meant to be used for a distributable version. There is a manual how to run Kibana locally from the sources:

github.com

elastic/kibana/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-your-development-environment

# Contributing to Kibana

If you are an employee at Elastic, please check out our Developer Guide [here](https://docs.elastic.dev/kibana-dev-docs/getting-started/welcome).

If you are an external developer, we have a legacy developer guide [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development.html), or you can view the raw docs from our new, internal Developer Guide [here](./dev_docs/getting_started/dev_welcome.mdx). Eventually, our internal Developer Guide will be opened for public consumption.

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