# Kibana-6.4 server: unable to find usable node.js executable

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-server-unable-to-find-usable-node-js-executable/172242>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-server-unable-to-find-usable-node-js-executable/172242 "2019-03-14T03:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![BHAASKARR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhaaskarr/32/42148_2.png) [@BHAASKARR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BHAASKARR)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-server-unable-to-find-usable-node-js-executable/172242/1 "2019-03-14T03:57:12Z")

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I downloaded following files from respective releases pages.  
node-v8.11.4-x64.msi  
npm install -g yarn  
Restarted my system.  
elasticsearch-6.4.0.zip

Now downloaded kibana-6.4.zip from [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/6.4](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/6.4)  
and ran  
\<  
$yarn kbr bootstrap  
/\>

Bootstrapping completed!  
Then manually ran  
elasticsearch.bat  
and then  
\<  
$ yarn start

yarn run v1.13.0

$ sh ./bin/kibana --dev  
unable to find usable node.js executable.  
error Command failed with exit code 1.  
info Visit [https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run) for documentation about this command.  
/\>

Following versions are used  
C:\Users\Username\>node -v  
v8.11.4

C:\Users\Username\>npm -v  
5.6.0

C:\Users\Username\>yarn -v  
1.13.0

please help

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-server-unable-to-find-usable-node-js-executable/172242/2 "2019-03-14T18:04:17Z")

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Hey, a few options under the assmption this is for development:

1. verify that bash has the node install added to $PATH
2. use kibana.bat instead, `bin/kibana.bat --dev`
3. run node directly - `node scripts/kibana --dev`

I would suggest the third for simplicity, it'll take batch/sh out of the equation

If you just need to run kibana, [elastic.co/downloads](http://elastic.co/downloads) =\> past releases =\> `bin/kibana.bat`

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**Author:** ![BHAASKARR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhaaskarr/32/42148_2.png) [@BHAASKARR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BHAASKARR)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-server-unable-to-find-usable-node-js-executable/172242/3 "2019-03-15T21:30:23Z")

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Thanks Jon

The issue solved just with kibana.bat

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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:** [April 12, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-server-unable-to-find-usable-node-js-executable/172242/4 "2019-04-12T21:30:32Z")

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