No such file or directory; failed to install file 'themes\'.

[MagicAndre1981]

I made the update to from 1.6.21 to 1.7.0 and saw the message during update:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>clink update
Checking latest version...
Downloading latest release v1.7.0...
Expanding zip file...
No such file or directory; failed to install file 'themes\'.

Update worked, I'm now at 1.7.0, but I'm a bit confused by this message.

[chrisant996]

Aw man. I tried to test all the things thoroughly. I must have missed something specifically about the zip update mechanism.

I'll look into it tonight.

You can try installing with the setup.exe program and that should work.

[chrisant996]

Sigh. The updater has a bug that doesn't support subdirectories under the Clink program directory. And Clink v1.7.0 now includes a themes\ subdirectory there.

The updater updated everything except the new themes\ subdirectory and the *.clinktheme and *.clinkprompt files in it. Which are the main feature of v1.7.0.

For now, you can go to the latest release and manually extract the themes\ subdirectory from the .zip file there. Then create a themes\ subdirectory under Clink's program directory, and copy into it the files from the .zip file's themes\ subdirectory.

I'll work on solving the updater issue.

[harshn05]

I still faced the same issue with v1.7.0 --> v1.7.1 live upgrade

[chrisant996]

Yes. In testing, it worked. But in the live update it's still hitting a specific problem that I already fixed during the testing. I'm investigating, and deleting v1.7.1.

[chrisant996]

It's working fine with test builds. But not with release builds.

It deletes the files in a directory, and deletes the directory.
And then in release builds the directory is still present, but in test builds it's properly gone.

It almost seems like it might be a timing issue with antivirus software.

[chrisant996]

I've added logging and retries.

This is very frustrating for me, because I'm doing detailed and time consuming tests.
It's not like I'm publishing untested changes.

Here comes attempt number 3... 😕

[atamasco]

Still the same error (Windows 11, admin user):

D:\>clink update
Checking latest version...
Downloading latest release v1.7.2...
Expanding zip file...
No such file or directory; failed to install file 'themes\'.

[d4k0]

I can also confirm the same error under Windows 10:

clink update
Checking latest version...
Downloading latest release v1.7.2...
Expanding zip file...
No such file or directory; failed to install file 'themes\'.

[chrisant996]

v1.7.2 solves the problem. But you have to update twice: run clink update and it fails to install the themes\ directory, but if you start a new Clink session and run clink update again then it's able to install the themes\ directory.

I think maybe v1.7.1 had already solved the problem: The first update fails; there's no way around that. Because when updating from version X to version Y, the updater code that's running is from version X. I forgot to explain that two updates are necessary to finish the update.

[chrisant996]

v1.7.2 solves the problem. _**But you have to update twice: run clink update and it fails to install the themes\ directory, but if you start a new Clink session and run clink update again then it's able to install the themes\ directory.

I think maybe v1.7.1 had already solved the problem: The first update fails; there's no way around that. Because when updating from version X to version Y, the updater code that's running is from version X. I forgot to explain that two updates are necessary to finish the update.

@d4k0 You have to start a new Clink session after the initial error, and then it will finish the update. There's nothing I can do to prevent the initial error -- the code for that is already on everyone's machines.

[d4k0]

Ah, the second run of clink update solves the problem, in the notification email from Github the note was not there. Thank you!

[chrisant996]

The initial update reports an error. Start a new Clink session after the error, and it will finish the update successfully.

There's nothing that can be done to prevent the initial error because it's running the updater code that's already on your computer from the older copy of Clink. I can't even add a clarifying message. Because the updater code is always from the previous version of Clink -- it's never from the new version. 😓

[MagicAndre1981]

thanks, second update worked:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4317]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Clink v1.7.2.f5e99f
Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Martin Ridgers
Portions Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Christopher Antos
https://github.com/chrisant996/clink

Clink v1.7.2 needs to be updated again to install the themes directory.
- To apply the update, run 'clink update'.
- To view the release notes, visit the Releases page:
  https://github.com/chrisant996/clink/releases

C:\Windows\System32>clink update
Checking latest version...
Expanding zip file...
Updating registry keys...

Updated Clink to v1.7.2.

To view the release notes, visit the Releases page:
  https://github.com/chrisant996/clink/releases

C:\Windows\System32>

[atamasco]

Confirmed, runnig the update a 2nd time works. 👍

[wbpayne22902]

For some reason on my machine, although the update completed the second time successfully, I still cannot use any of the new color themes or prompts. I have stock settings so it can't be any lua script interfering.

[chrisant996]

For some reason on my machine, although the update completed the second time successfully, I still cannot use any of the new color themes or prompts. I have stock settings so it can't be any lua script interfering.

For tracking purposes I've moved that to a new separate issue #682, since it's not related to this issue.

[chrisant996]

Closing this now, as the issue is fixed and mitigated, and running clink update again finishes the update successfully.

[chrisant996]

Moved three comments to #692 for tracking purposes because they're a separate issue (hid the comments here as "duplicate").