pnpm failure to find the Global Bin Directory when using the -g flag

[Eprince-hub]

Some students have issues with installing @upleveled/preflight after they have successfully run the pnpm installation using corepack

The pnpm installation was completed with the code below

corepack enable
corepack prepare pnpm@latest --activate
pnpm setup
source ~/`[[ $SHELL == *"zsh" ]] && echo '.zshrc' || echo '.bash_profile'`

But running pnpm add --global @upleveled/preflight to install Preflight caused the error below, and running pnpm setup multiple times or repeating the while pnpm setup again could not solve the issue

ERR_PNPM_NO_GLOBAL_BIN_DIR  Unable to find the
global bin directory

Run "pnpm setup" to create it automatically,
or set the global-bin-dir setting, or the
PNPM_HOME env variable. The global bin
directory should be in the PATH.E env variable. The global bin directory should be in the PATH.

A similar issue is reported on GitHub => pnpm/pnpm#5883

Started a new issue in pnpm GitHub for this problem => pnpm/pnpm#8997

Note

There was the correct pnpm setting in the .zshrc file, and preflight was also located in /Users/[email protected]/Library/pnpm/preflight which seems correct

# pnpm
export PNPM_HOME="/Users/[email protected]/Library/pnpm"
case ":$PATH:" in
  *":$PNPM_HOME:"*) ;;
  *) export PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" ;;
esac
# pnpm end

Systems where this issue was reported

Hardware-Übersicht: Modellname:	MacBook Pro Modell-Identifizierung:	MacBookPro17,1 Modellnummer:	MYD82D/A Chip:	Apple M1 Gesamtanzahl der Kerne:	8 (4 Leistung und 4 Effizienz) Speicher:	8 GB Systemfirmwareversion:	11881.41.5 OS-Ladeprogrammversion:	11881.41.5 Seriennummer (System):	FVFF6J1BQ05D Hardware-UUID:	A8174CC5-E9AA-5CD8-933B-6D31342B6383 Bereitstellungs-UDID:	00008103-001E491E0ED2001E Status der Aktivierungssperre:	AktiviertÜbersicht über die Systemsoftware: Systemversion:	macOS 15.1.1 (24B91) Kernel-Version:	Darwin 24.1.0 Startvolume:	Macintosh HD Startmodus:	Normal Gerätename:	MacBook Pro von Florentine Benutzername:	Florentine Ramböck (FlorentineRamboeck) Sicherer virtueller Speicher:	Aktiviert Systemintegritätsschutz:	Aktiviert Zeit seit dem Start:	21 Stunden und 45 Minuten

Model Name:	MacBook ProModel Identifier:	Mac14,9Model Number:	Z17G00197FN/AChip:	Apple M2 ProTotal Number of Cores:	10 (6 performance and 4 efficiency)Memory:	16 GBSystem Firmware Version:	10151.121.1OS Loader Version:	10151.121.1Serial Number (system):	MMPK0JVPQTHardware UUID:	1AF749D2-A103-5260-9B98-9038F39E203DProvisioning UDID:	00006020-000661DC01D3C01EActivation Lock Status:	Enabled

The following steps solved it

1. run this pnpm config set global-bin-dir /Users/[email protected]/Library/pnpm
2. rerun Preflight installation: pnpm add --global @upleveled/preflight

[karlhorky]

@Eprince-hub that issue is pretty old and doesn't have a lot of useful information.

1. Did you find any other issues?
2. Does it make sense to create a new pnpm issue with reproduction?
3. Can you provide the configuration of the students above? (eg. operating system, any other relevant config / setup)

[Eprince-hub]

@Eprince-hub that issue is pretty old and doesn't have a lot of useful information.

1. Did you find any other issues?
2. Does it make sense to create a new pnpm issue with reproduction?
3. Can you provide the configuration of the students above? (eg. operating system, any other relevant config / setup)

1. No, I didn't find any other related issue
2. I created a new pnpm issue with the steps that caused the issue for the students, but there is no dedicated repro => PNPM fail to find the Global Bin Directory when using the -g flag pnpm/pnpm#8997
3. Yes, the system configurations for the students is already added in the description