@devcontainer/cli@0.9.1 unable to run devcontainer up

[doggy8088]

I'm using Windows 10. I've just checked Development container CLI page and installed dev container CLI using the following command:

npm install -g @devcontainers/cli

After been installed, I realized that it's a bit different than docs said:

I only have two commands:

devcontainer <command>

Commands:
  devcontainer open [path]   Open a dev container in VS Code
  devcontainer build [path]  Build a dev container image

Options:
  -h, --help               Show help  [boolean]
      --disable-telemetry  Disable telemetry  [boolean] [default: false]

What am I missing?

[bamurtaugh]

Thanks for filing! It looks like you may have the previous VS Code dev container CLI installed as well.

Could you run devcontainer which to see if it outputs the path where you installed the package from devcontainers/cli, or if it outputs a path to the older CLI?

[doggy8088]

I found the exact problem now. Here is how I can reproduce this problem:

1. Execute Remote-Containers: Install devcontainer CLI in VSCode.

   

   

2. I found that this VSCode command will add the following path to PATH environment.

   c:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers\cli-bin

3. Run the devcontainer.cmd from this folder will lead to this problem.

   

I think you should prevent this dependency issue from the Remote-Containers extension.

[chrmarti]

The latest version of Remote-Containers forwards to the @devcontainers/cli. Closing as fixed.