Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here

[kirrg001]

Could we optimise the validation for this error?

Here is the following case:
I run ghost install help and it fails because help is not available. There are for sure other command combinations users uses.

Then i run ghost install and it tells me that Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here.. This is quite annoying, because the only file which was created is ghost-cli-debug-2017-03-16T10.log. And as none Ghost developer i might not know what todo.

Possible tasks:

• improve messaging
• improve "Ghost cannot be installed here" validation

[dandv]

I still get this error incorrectly. It was triggered by entering the wrong password due to an arguably confusing prompt:

After that, the installation seems to be in a broken state. I've deleted /var/www/ghost, but running ghost install produces "Message: Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here.". Deleted /var/www/ - no improvement.

[ErisDS]

@dandv I have questions:

triggered by entering the wrong password due to an arguably confusing prompt

What was confusing here? What were your expectations?

After that, the installation seems to be in a broken state.

Did you try to use ghost uninstall ?

I've deleted /var/www/ghost, but running ghost install produces "Message: Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here.". Deleted /var/www/ - no improvement.

After deleting folders, where did you try to install Ghost?

I understand that you expect that the CLI would clean up after itself, that's very tricky though - imagine if you ran ghost install in an already setup ghost folder by mistake, it failed, and Ghost deleted everything... it's better for us to err on the side of caution here.