I have an old version of particle-cli (haven't been developing for over a year), so I tried to update it using the documented instructions:
"$ npm update -g particle-cli" on a Windows 10 platform from the command prompt.
A lot of stuff happened, but the lines logged to the console make me think the update failed. They are listed below. I see errors about can't find Python, bad platform, etc. I suspect I may be missing some other utilties (node.js, dfu-util, openssl?) but not sure how to check for them - I would assume that I had installed them previously though. I'd like to understand a little more about the software stack that we use for particle.io projects (Photon, Electron in my case), where it is all installed, how to check the status of it, if possible. I know I can try to clean it all off and start from scratch as a last resort, but I'm not even sure how to do that. Any thoughts would be helpful.
Regards,
-SB
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C:\Users\Randy\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\particle-cli\node_modules@serialport\bindings>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "D:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "" rebuild )
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usb@1.6.0 install C:\Users\Randy\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\particle-cli\node_modules\usb
prebuild-install --verbose || node-gyp rebuild
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C:\Users\Randy\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\particle-cli\node_modules\usb>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "D:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "" rebuild )
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npm ERR! argv "D:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe" "D:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "update" "-g" "particle-cli"
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