Not able to install Yarn through corepack

Question

Environment: Windows, Node 16.18.0, Corepack 0.14.1

I am following these instructions to install Yarn.

When I run corepack prepare [email protected] or corepack prepare [email protected] --activate

I get the following error:

Preparing [email protected]... Internal Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'C:\Users\rashiditaba\AppData\Local\node\corepack\yarn\3.2.4' Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\node\corepack\yarn\3.2.4'

Answer 1

Corepack needs to be explicitly enabled to have any effect.

Disable Corepack with the command:

corepack disable

You will now be able to install Yarn via npm:

npm install -g yarn --force

To check the installed version of Yarn use:

yarn -v

To upgrade the version use (stable version 3.2.4):

yarn set version stable

Now you can enable Corepack again (if it fails keep it disabled):

corepack enable

Try the failed command:

corepack prepare [email protected] --activate

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