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Firefly CLI Instillation Error on Windows

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported installation flow on Windows with WSL, then run the stated sudo ff version and ff commands to compare the failures. Done means the install command succeeds and ff version runs without the reported “No such file or directory” or “command not found” errors.

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Description

bug Windows WSL

After attempting to install FireFly CLI on Windows, there is an error that comes about when running the install command. The error is "No such file or directory". This error comes about after installing WSL on Windows Machines. After attempting to install the package, I had run "Sudo ff version" and an additional error was present. This error is "ff command not found".

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