Cannot install the latest version if generator-jhipster from sources

[spotlesscoder]

Overview of the issue

Trying to install, I get the following error message

C:\Users\user>npm i -g https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN cleanup Failed to remove some directories [
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     'C:\\ProgramData\\nvm\\v18.16.0\\node_modules\\generator-jhipster',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rmdir 'C:\ProgramData\nvm\v18.16.0\node_modules\generator-jhipster\node_modules\mem-fs\node_modules\@types'] {
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -4048,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'EPERM',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: 'C:\\ProgramData\\nvm\\v18.16.0\\node_modules\\generator-jhipster\\node_modules\\mem-fs\\node_modules\\@types'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ]
npm WARN cleanup ]
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! git dep preparation failed
npm ERR! command C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\ProgramData\nvm\v18.16.0\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js install --force --cache=C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache --prefer-offline=false --prefer-online=false --offline=false --no-progress --no-save --no-audit --include=dev --include=peer --include=optional --no-package-lock-only --no-dry-run
npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! npm ERR! path C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_cacache\tmp\git-clone53f5Ww
npm ERR! npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c npm run build
npm ERR! npm ERR! > [email protected] build
npm ERR! npm ERR! > npm run compile && npm run copy-files && npm run compile-types && npm run copy-types
npm ERR! npm ERR!
npm ERR! npm ERR!
npm ERR! npm ERR! > [email protected] compile
npm ERR! npm ERR! > tsc
npm ERR! npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! 'tsc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
npm ERR! npm ERR! operable program or batch file.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! npm ERR!     C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2023-06-18T14_46_22_304Z-debug-0.log

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2023-06-18T14_45_18_941Z-debug-0.log

C:\Users\user>

Motivation for or Use Case

I wanted to try the latest bugfixes just merged

Reproduce the error

Install node version 18 on windows 11, run

npm i -g https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster

Related issues

Could not find any

Suggest a Fix

JHipster Version(s)

8.0.0-beta.1

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[JeroenAdam]

Why not installing with this? npm install -g generator-jhipster

[spotlesscoder]

Because the fix that was merged to the main branch was just merged a few hours ago while the latest available release on npmjs is from 7 days ago

[spotlesscoder]

I found out how to do it now

1.) git clone https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster
2.) cd generator-jhipster
3.) npm i -g typescript
4.) npm i -g @types/node
5.) npm ci
6.) npm link
7.) cd .. && mkdir my-app && cd my-app
8.) jhipster --skip-jhipster-dependencies
9.) Follow the instructions
10.) npm link generator-jhipster