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Asked: 2026-05-18T08:38:52+00:00

I am having trouble with kiwi, the package loader from node.js I have installed

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I am having trouble with kiwi, the package loader from node.js

I have installed kiwi and have the following feedback from the terminal:

bingomanatee@UbunTwo:/var/node/kiwi$ sudo kiwi install ejs
   install : ejs
   version : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>The requested URL /ejs/resolve was not found on this server.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at kiwijs.com Port 80</address> </body></html>
    create : /home/bingomanatee/.kiwi/current/seeds/ejs/<!DOCTYPE
     fetch : <!DOCTYPE.seed
    unpack : /home/bingomanatee/.kiwi/current/seeds/ejs/<!DOCTYPE/ejs.seed

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
    remove : /home/bingomanatee/.kiwi/current/seeds/ejs/<!DOCTYPE
Error: failed to unpack. Seed is invalid or corrupt.

I may be working on a wrong assumption that kiwi downloads source as well as installs it – should I be cloning repositories before I use kiwi to install them?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Directly from kiwi’s GitHub Readme:

    NOTE: kiwi is no longer supported, please use npm. This repository will remain for educational purposes only

    So you should take a look at npm, which as far as my experience with it goes, just works.

    ejs is available via npm, as simple npm install ejs should do the job.

    But make sure to install Node.js under ~ else you’ll have to to use sudo which is not recommended at all, read the npm readme for further information.

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