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Yarn: How to link acorn using boltpkg - symlink error

My team has a monorepo where we are using bolt to manage dependencies and linking. I was trying to get the dev environment up and running on my local Windows machine but had issues install/link acorn. What I did was clone the repo, then $ bolt to install dependencies. As you can see, it showed error linking dependencies and complained about acorn.ps1 not being a symlink. I've done some research but none of the solutions I found, such as including --non-bin-links or running as admin, worked for me. I'd appreciate if you could provide some insights on this.

  • Windows: 10;
  • Yarn: 1.13.0;
  • Bolt: 0.22.6 - tried 0.22.4 as well but did not work;

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  • Ok I found the solution to this issue.

    acorn is not a dependency for my project, but it is one for yarn itself, as I searched for it and it only appears in yarn.lock. Meaning there's definitely something weird with my current version of Yarn, 1.13.0. So I downgraded it to 1.12.3 and according to the official documentation, installed bolt as a local package instead of a global one. It solved this issue.