Unable to build Appium server since it fails to findNodeInCurrentFileSystem

Issues/Bugs
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I am unable to build the Appium Server using this standard line appiumDriverLocalService = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildDefaultService();

I get the following error message

io.appium.java_client.service.local.InvalidServerInstanceException: Invalid server instance exception has occured: There is no installed nodes! Please install node via NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium#using-node-js) or download and install Appium app (http://appium.io/downloads.html)

    at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.findNodeInCurrentFileSystem(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:184)
    at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.checkAppiumJS(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:345)
    at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.createArgs(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:425)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:358)
    at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(AppiumDriverLocalService.java:86)
    at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumDriverLocalService.buildDefaultService(AppiumDriverLocalService.java:82)
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Caused by: java.io.IOException: /Users/deepak/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/lib/node_modules
rm: /tmp/deepak.start.74839: No such file or directory

    at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.findNodeInCurrentFileSystem(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:185)
    ... 29 more

*I have edited a few unnecessary TestNG lines to make it more readable.

I thought this was an issue with my node installation and I have re-installed node and currently the default node version in my local setup (Mac OS) is v14.16.0 . But still I see an IOException for Node version v12.18.3 .

Does anyone have a solution for this? I have been stuck on this problem the whole day

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Issue is probably that you are on ‘zsh’, but the installer is built for ‘bash’. You can find out what shell you are using with either of the following commands:

echo $0
echo $SHELL

Take a look here for possible solutions:

If those don’t work, do an internet search for ‘zsh node’.