# Kibana source installation error **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 28, 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-source-installation-error/83986 "2017-04-28T09:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![sravya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@sravya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sravya)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-source-installation-error/83986/12 "2017-06-07T10:19:43Z")
> [@Kibana Package creation issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-package-creation-issue/88149): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-source-installation-error/83986)._