# Package Creation Error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/package-creation-error/87718>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/package-creation-error/87718 "2017-05-31T10:46:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![FareehaNaaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@FareehaNaaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FareehaNaaz)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/package-creation-error/87718/1 "2017-05-31T10:46:37Z")

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Hi! iwas trying to create kibana rpm package "npm run build -- --rpm", and went ran into this issue. i couldnot find any helpful links!

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

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**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/package-creation-error/87718/2 "2017-05-31T16:31:00Z")

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I think you created this thread in the wrong place. You should ask in [https://discuss.elastic.co/c/kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/kibana).

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**Author:** ![FareehaNaaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@FareehaNaaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FareehaNaaz)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/package-creation-error/87718/3 "2017-06-01T03:21:27Z")

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thanks!

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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:** [June 29, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/package-creation-error/87718/4 "2017-06-29T03:21:27Z")

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