ng update fails when windows username contains a space #16865
Description
🐞 bug report
Affected Package
ng update
Is this a regression?
Never seen before.
Good news
This appears to be fixed once updating to latest version - but since the error is observed when trying to do precisely that I thought the solution below may help others.
Description
My Windows user account contains a space, and specifically my temp directories are:
TEMP=C:\Users\Simon Weaver\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\Simon Weaver\AppData\Local\Temp
When running ng update to update to Angular 9 I get the log below - due to the space.
Most notable line:
Could not install from "Weaver\AppData\Local\T...
🔬 Minimal Reproduction
I'm only able to provide the logging as follows:
PS S:\tfs\rr\Defender.NG> ng update --verbose
Locating potential npmrc files:
Trying 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\etc\npmrc'...not found.
Trying 'C:\Users\Simon Weaver\.npmrc'...not found.
Trying 'S:\tfs\.npmrc'...not found.
Trying 'S:\tfs\rr\.npmrc'...not found.
Trying 'S:\tfs\rr\Defender.NG\.npmrc'...not found.
The installed Angular CLI version is older than the latest stable version.
Installing a temporary version to perform the update.
Installing packages for tooling via npm.
An unhandled exception occurred: npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL
npm ERR! Could not install from "Weaver\AppData\Local\Temp\.ng-temp-packages-h9b5YS" as it does not contain a package.json file.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Simon Weaver\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-02-07T06_00_18_234Z-debug.log
So pretty obviously something somewhere is blowing up because of the space in my username.
🌍 Your Environment
This was discovered on 8.2.14 but not sure the CLI version at the time.
Also I'm not clear if this issue is already fixed.
Workaround
I just created a folder c:\temp\angulartemp and set the environmental variables
set tmp=c:\temp\angulartemp
set temp=c:\temp\angulartemp
I was then able to follow the install instructions for ng update and everything went great :-)