Cannot Complete Install - Troubleshooting

[KarolinePurpleCarrot]

I am using CMD.exe Prompt to install into a local virtual environment; I am able to run the initial install (pip install --upgrade "knowledge-repo[all]"). It fails to run when I write the next prompt (knowledge_repo --repo test_repo init). My error reads: "'knowledge_repo' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

I have checked the pip list and "knowledge-repo" is present in the list.

Under my environment\Scripts there is a "knowledge_repo" file, but it does not look like an exe, it's just a txt file; I am also able to execute "setx KNOWLEDGE_REPO" and point it to my github repo on my local.

Also, if I open the knowledge_repo file in a code editor and run it, I get an error: ImportError: Bad git executable.

I am by no means a developer - just a data analyst trying to get this set up. Is there additional troubleshooting documentation somewhere or is something weird going on? Thank you!

[Tom271]

Hi @KarolinePurpleCarrot, did you get anywhere with this? I think it's a Windows problem, this version runs fine on Mac. I have a similar problem on my Windows machine, except I don't get any error, the command just silently fails.

After having a bit more of a look, it seems that it is no longer supported on Windows? The github actions jobs only check macos and ubuntu. A possible workaround is to roll back to v0.8.8, but that requires dealing with a few dependency issues (namely in werkzeug and markdown). More of a headache than I thought.

There might be a more recent version than v0.8.8 that works, but I've not had time to test