Kibana source installation error

Elastic Stack Kibana
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git clone https://github.com/root/kibana.git kibana

Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/kibana/.git/
error: Couldn't resolve host 'github.com' while accessing https://github.com/root/kibana.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

-> when i searched for this error, i got 2 solutions, 1 was to check git file permissions which didnot help me out and another one was to update my git version(current version 1.7.1)

  • i have tried "git clone https://github.com/git/git" but even this didnot work out also yum,wget arent working in our box
    what else can i try to resolve this issue?
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Where did these instructions come from?

https://github.com/root is not the Elastic organization, that's just some random user on Github.

Download the products from here: https://www.elastic.co/products

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we are looking into installing Kibana through source , can you please provide any other or detailed links on it?

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Sure, you can just do:

git clone https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git kibana
cd kibana

You'll need to have your own distribution of NodeJS and you'll need to install all the NodeJS packages. The full instructions are here: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-your-development-environment

What is your reason for wanting to install Kibana through source? There are way more steps in that path versus downloading the distribution. Based on your initial comment, you seem to have some DNS problems (is the machine firewalled?), as well as issues grasping the basics of GitHub.

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hi!
i was able to go ahead with the steps:

  1. Install git from yum
  2. I installed Node.Js from https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest/
    3.git clone https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git kibana
  3. Installed NVM from curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash
  4. nvm install "$(cat .node-version)"
  5. npm install
  6. npm run elasticsearch

and then i got npm errors

npm run elasticsearch
npm ERR! Linux 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
npm ERR! argv "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v7.10.0/bin/node" "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v7.10.0/bin/npm" "run" "elasticsearch"
npm ERR! node v7.10.0
npm ERR! npm v4.2.0
npm ERR! path /root/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/root/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/root/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-08T15_10_31_611Z-debug.log

here is log file details:
tail -f /root/kibana/KIBANA/npm-debug.log
23 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the kibana package,
23 error not with npm itself.
23 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
23 error grunt esvm:dev:keepalive
23 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
23 error npm bugs kibana
23 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
23 error npm owner ls kibana
23 error There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

could not get what to do

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hi!
i was looking for the same and i get the same errors after going through all the dependecies and i havent found any solution for this, i have come up with 3 suggestion after searching nearly 20 different links, 1) deleting esvm dir 2) degarding node version and 3) running "npm install grunt -keep alive --save-dev, but neither of these helped me!

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Based on the command you used to clone, I presume the location to the package.json file is /root/kibana, and that's where you want to run npm run elasticsearch - the location that you clone it from.

Why are you not cloning the repo in a user home directory? The dev environment is meant for a user to develop with, not to run as a production environment or in a container.

If you need to make customizations to Kibana before running it in production, you should:

  1. File an enhancement issue to see if the thing you need can be added into the core source code, but first search the current issues to see if there is something already open for it.
  2. If you can't wait for the enhancement to go into core, or if you just need to build Kibana with your own NPM mirror, you should fork the repo in Github and clone your own fork
  • Develop on this fork in an actual development environment, not a container
  • Create a build in this environment. The documentation has instructions on how to do this.
  • Deploy the build to your production environment.
  • Use an actual build of (one that matches the version of Kibana) to run in your production environment. In the production environment, you won't want to use npm run elasticsearch, which uses a development module called ESVM.
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Hi! iwas trying to create kibana rpm package "npm run build -- --rpm", and ran into this issue.
Fatal error: Path must be a string. Received true
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! kibana@6.0.0-alpha2 build: grunt build "--rpm"
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the kibana@6.0.0-alpha2 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/farya/.npm/_logs/2017-05-31T10_36_12_445Z-debug.log

i did try upgarding my babel-core@6.10.4 but that agin didnt help me out.

$ npm run build -- --rpm

kibana@6.0.0-alpha2 build /home/farya/kibana
grunt build "--rpm"
Running "build" task

Running "clean:build" (clean) task

1 path cleaned.
Running "clean:target" (clean) task

0 paths cleaned.
Running "_build:downloadNodeBuilds" task

Downloading darwin-x86_64 and corresponding sha
Downloading linux-x86_64 and corresponding sha
Downloading windows-x86_64 and corresponding sha
darwin-x86_64 downloaded and verified
linux-x86_64 downloaded and verified
windows-x86_64 downloaded and verified
Running "_build:extractNodeBuilds" task

Running "copy:devSource" (copy) task
Created 483 directories, copied 2032 files

Running "clean:devSourceForTestbed" (clean) task

1 path cleaned.
Running "babel:build" (babel) task

Running "_build:babelOptions" task

Running "_build:plugins" task

Running "_build:data" task

Running "i18nextract:default_options" (i18nextract) task

Create file: build/i18n_extract/en.json
Statistics : empty: 47 (100%) / Updated: 0 / Deleted: 0 / New: 47

Running "_build:check" task

Running "_build:packageJson" task

Running "_build:readme" task

Running "_build:babelCache" task

Running "_build:installNpmDeps" task

Running "_build:notice" task
Fatal error: Path must be a string. Received true
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! kibana@6.0.0-alpha2 build: grunt build "--rpm"
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the kibana@6.0.0-alpha2 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/farya/.npm/_logs/2017-06-01T12_59_41_662Z-debug.log

here is the log file o/p:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/home/farya/.nvm/versions/node/v6.10.2/bin/node',
1 verbose cli '/home/farya/.nvm/versions/node/v6.10.2/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli 'run',
1 verbose cli 'build',
1 verbose cli '--',
1 verbose cli '--rpm' ]
2 info using npm@4.6.1
3 info using node@v6.10.2
4 verbose run-script [ 'prebuild', 'build', 'postbuild' ]
5 info lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~prebuild: kibana@6.0.0-alpha2
6 silly lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~prebuild: no script for prebuild, continuing
7 info lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: kibana@6.0.0-alpha2
8 verbose lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 verbose lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: PATH: /home/farya/.nvm/versions/node/v6.10.2/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/home/farya/kibana/node_modules/.bin:/home/farya/.nvm/versions/node/v6.10.2/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/farya/.local/bin:/home/farya/bin:/home/farya/.nvm/versions/node/v6.10.2/bin/grunt
10 verbose lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: CWD: /home/farya/kibana
11 silly lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: Args: [ '-c', 'grunt build "--rpm"' ]
12 silly lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
13 info lifecycle kibana@6.0.0-alpha2~build: Failed to exec build script
14 verbose stack Error: kibana@6.0.0-alpha2 build: grunt build "--rpm"
14 verbose stack Exit status 1
i also tried to edit tasks/build/notice.js by adding console.log({ kibanaDir, noticePath }); after line 22 where noticePath is initialized and the ran npm run build -- --rpm but again i ran into same issue

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Hi!
i too face the same issue, can anyone guide us on this?

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Sounds like you might have some global NPM packages. If you do, those would conflict with the packages specified in the project.

You should not have any global NPM packages installed when developing with Kibana.

This topic has gotten hijacked from the original posting. Please open a new topic with your question if you have new questions to post. Thanks :slight_smile:

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i did try removing all the globally installed npm packages but then again i face the same issue.

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