Lesson 3: Troubleshooting - Prerequisite installation

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Time: 10-15 minutes

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to get you up and running with Cypress.

Introduction:
In this lesson, you will start to get hands on with Cypress. This is your first step in understanding how the Cypress installation works. By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to install Cypress and fundamentally learn the folder structure and pre-installed files that come with Cypress.

Activity:

  1. Install the following in your machine:
  • VSCode
  • Node and NPM
  • Cypress
  1. Leave a comment below if you are having any issues installing any of the above pre-requisites.
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Hi Maire,
I have installed the cypress successfully but when I run the command npx cypress open, I am landing to this below error

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I tried to install the dependency as well but no luck and getting the below error

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Would you please help me to resolve this issue, Thank you

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@shiwani.sandal Apologies for the delay in response! Looking at Introduction | Cypress Documentation, can you try running this command to see if it will help?

apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb
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Hey folks! Just in case anyone else got stuck at the same part: I don’t think it was explicitly stated, but to see the folders run npx cypress open after installing everything and you’ll have everything you need! Otherwise, you just see the node modules :slight_smile:

Great course so far!

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Ah yes thank you for spotting that Katie! :blush: