syntax error near unexpected token `<'

[senorbond]

syntax error near unexpected token `<'

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[ ISSUE-GROUP ] console

Problem/Motivation

Followed installation as listed in guide as follows:

$ composer require drupal/console:~1.0 --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
$ curl https://drupalconsole.com/installer -L -o drupal.phar
$ mv drupal.phar /usr/local/bin/drupal
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drupal

$ drupal self-update
/usr/local/bin/drupal: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token <' /usr/local/bin/drupal: line 2: '

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• Why are we doing this? Above all, a summary should explain why a change is needed, in a few short sentences.

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Drupal version : 9.1.0-dev
drupal/console 1.9.5 The Drupal CLI. A tool to generate boilerplate code, interact with and debug Drupal.
drupal/console-core 1.9.6 Drupal Console Core
drupal/console-en 1.9.5 Drupal Console English Language
drupal/console-extend-plugin 0.9.4 Drupal Console Extend Plugin

Using DrupalVM

[DavisAre]

curl https://drupalconsole.com/installer -L -o drupal.phar

The server is down. Hmm, so it seems the launcher install can't be installed for 3 days already due to server error:
...

<title>500 Server Error</title>

[philmorley]

Any updates on this? Server is still down. Any mirrors for the installer?

[xurizaemon]

This seems to be an issue with drupalconsole.com specifically, affecting only the "Global Executable" instructions. Composer installs seem okay to me while https://drupalconsole.com/installer shows an error 500 for me right now.

@senorbond your description seems to use both a composer local install and a global install - you might find that you have a working drupal console in ./vendor/bin / ./vendor/drupal/console already; I've installed D9 projects during the last month and had Drupal console (v1.9.5) install fine via the composer method ... but the alternate approach does seem broken right now 😬

In Slack it looks like this issue has been raised repeatedly since August 😞

[itfm]

I too receive this error. Composer installed it just fine but any drupal command results in this same error, any resolution to this? Running a MAC with the latest OS X.

$ drupal
/usr/local/bin/drupal: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token <' /usr/local/bin/drupal: line 2: '

[xurizaemon]

Here's the process to install Drupal Console via Composer, which worked for me last time I tried it.

https://drupalconsole.com/docs/en/getting/composer

If you want a global install, you could composer global require drupal/console ... that approach is apparently discouraged by the authors of Drupal Console BUT at least it might work 😉

[hartly97]

I receive the same error. Running a mac with latest OSX using Composer to install Drupal Console.
/usr/local/bin/drupal: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token <' /usr/local/bin/drupal: line 2: '

[RAFA3L]

Same here, the problem is the server, the downloaded file have inside this:

<title>500 Server Error</title>

Error: Server Error

The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.

[plato1123]

That was a real battle, pretty ridiculous. I ended up getting around the error by installing using composer composer global require drupal/console:@stable which composer version 2 installed it to ~/.config/composer/vendor/drupal/console/bin I then copied it from that directory to a directory that was in my path with sudo cp drupal /usr/local/bin/drupal

You might also have to chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drupal

I see the documentation saying not to install it globally, only on a per project basis, but most of the developers on my team do not want drupal console and I don't want to force it on them by requiring it as part of a project. Globally seems like a better solution in my case.

Edit: nope still not working, I can execute Drupal console from the ~/.config/composer/vendor/drupal/console/bin folder but not anywhere else. I guess Drupal console is in practically an abandoned project, at least if installing it per project is a no go.

[xurizaemon]

@plato1123 comment above has a global install method for you, #4263 (comment)

@hechoendrupal is there any way the community should support you in maintaining this project? Is it still active / alive?

Issue is reported in these other locations:

• [console] The Launcher installation instruction is broken drupalconsole.com#132
• https://www.drupal.org/project/console/issues/3166345
• [console] The Launcher installation instruction is broken #4275

While the installer instructions are broken because the installer URL is inaccessible, there are some workarounds in the comments above - folks, please read those to save yourself repeating others posts.

SEE #4263 (comment)

[boganegru]

You can find the releases here.
https://github.com/hechoendrupal/drupal-console-launcher/releases