Error when creating new project

[cdarken]

When I run emerald new I get this error:

⠙ Creating new project/usr/local/lib/node_modules/emerald/node_modules/solc/soljson.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { var Module;if(!Module)Module=(typeof Module!=="undefined"?Module:null)||{};var moduleOverrides={};for(var key in Module){if(Module.hasOwnProperty(key)){moduleOverrides[key]=Module[key]}}var ENVIRONMENT_IS_WEB=typeof window==="object";var ENVIRONMENT_IS_WORKER=typeof importScripts==="function";var ENVIRONMENT_IS_NODE=typeof process==="object"&&typeof require==="function"&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WEB&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WORKER;var ENVIRONMENT_IS_SHELL=!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WEB&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_NODE&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WORKER;if(ENVIRONMENT_IS_NODE){if(!Module["print"])Module["print"]=function print(x){process["stdout"].write(x+"\n")};if(!Module["printErr"])Module["printErr"]=function printErr(x){process["stderr"].write(x+"\n")};var nodeFS=require("fs");var nodePath=require("path");Module["read"]=function read(filename,binary){filename=nodePath["normalize"](filename);var ret=nodeFS["readFileSync"](filen

Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted, rename '/var/www/learn/cryptocurr/emerald-app/1542180924926-10244903732153965/emerald-starter-kit-master' -> '/tmp/tmp-24584mW2r3ut651dM'

[shanejonas]

Hi, this is an issue with emerald internally using the rename command across partitions.

theres a workaround for this right now from here #9 :

export TMP=~/tmp; npm install -g https://github.com/ETCDEVTeam/emerald.git

[cdarken]

I'm not trying to install emerald, that works just fine. The issue is when trying to generate new project.

[phyro]

There is a NOTE added at the end:

NOTE: for anyone having this issue, unless you put this in your .bashrc or equivalent, you'll have to run export TMP=/home/phyro/tmp before using some of the commands eg. emerald new

is your /var/... in the same partition as ~/? If it is, you can try what Shane said so creating an empty folder ~/tmp and then doing export TMP=~/tmp; inside the terminal (if it is not, you need to set TMP var to some folder on the same partition otherwise you will probably still get the cross-device error) where you want to run emerald new and see if you still get the error.
If this doesn't help, then perhaps installing with the whole command that Shane pasted and after install is completed doing export TMP=~/tmp; emerald new

If it does work, then you will need to do export TMP=.. every time you open a new terminal unless you automate this eg. putting the export in .bashrc or whatever equivalent you have

[cdarken]

Thanks for the help, I got it now, I set TMP to a dir in /var/www because even if it's on the same physical partition it's mounted with bind on /var/www and I guess that's why it gets confused.