Issue when installing `appium-windows-driver` for `Appium version 2.5.2`

Issues/Bugs
1

I have issue when installing appium-windows-driver
Below are some outcome for basic commands:

appium driver install --source=npm appium-windows-driver
× Checking if 'appium-windows-driver' is compatible
Error: npm command 'info appium-windows-driver peerDependencies dependencies --json' failed with code EINVAL.

STDOUT:


STDERR:

and here is what I get on running the info command manually

npm info appium-windows-driver peerDependencies dependencies --json
npm verb cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb title npm prefix
npm verb argv "prefix" "--global"
npm verb logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\Srijan\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2024-04-12T00_56_52_598Z-
npm verb logfile C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2024-04-12T00_56_52_598Z-debug-0.log
npm verb exit 0
npm info ok
npm verb cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb title npm info appium-windows-driver peerDependencies dependencies
npm verb argv "info" "appium-windows-driver" "peerDependencies" "dependencies" "--json"
npm verb logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2024-04-12T00_56_52_949Z-
npm verb logfile C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2024-04-12T00_56_52_949Z-debug-0.log
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/appium-windows-driver 125ms (cache revalidated)
{
  "peerDependencies": {
    "appium": "^2.4.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "asyncbox": "^3.0.0",
    "bluebird": "^3.5.1",
    "fancy-log": "^2.0.0",
    "lodash": "^4.6.1",
    "portscanner": "^2.2.0",
    "source-map-support": "^0.x",
    "teen_process": "^2.0.1"
  }
}

I am running Appium version 2.5.2

2

Hello.
We were able to reproduce this behavior in my organization, too. So far, however, it seems to have only been reproducible on Windows 10.

If we use node.js v20.12.1 (currently the LTS version is 20.12.2) and npm 10.2.4 (this is the one that ships with node.js v20.12.1), then the issue does not seem to occur.

The issue does not seem to be related to Appium 2.5.2.