# Failed to install: node-red-dashboard Cannot find module 'node-red-dashboard'
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [21 December 2019 11:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420 "2019-12-21T11:35:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [21 December 2019 11:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/1 "2019-12-21T11:35:49Z")
## how can i fix this ? here's the log
```auto
> 2019-12-21T11:34:17.150Z Install : node-red-dashboard 2.19.2
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> 2019-12-21T11:34:17.156Z npm.cmd install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --save --save-prefix="~" --production node-red-dashboard@2.19.2
> 2019-12-21T11:34:24.154Z [out] + node-red-dashboard@2.19.2
> 2019-12-21T11:34:24.154Z [out] updated 1 package in 4.89s
> 2019-12-21T11:34:24.277Z rc=0
```
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [21 December 2019 11:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/2 "2019-12-21T11:53:58Z")
Perhaps you want to show another part of the output ? This output seems to be ok.
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### Author:  [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)
#### Post date: [21 December 2019 21:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/3 "2019-12-21T21:18:21Z")
Yep, looks like it installed without problems.
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [23 December 2019 13:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/4 "2019-12-23T13:54:05Z")
it installed but it does not appear ! only packaje.json exists on the folder ... i don't know what's wrong?
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [23 December 2019 14:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/5 "2019-12-23T14:27:28Z")
> [@hathemi](#):
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> ! only packaje.json exists on the folder .
What folder did you run the command in?
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [23 December 2019 14:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/6 "2019-12-23T14:41:38Z")
inside .node-red/node\_modules folder
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [23 December 2019 15:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/failed-to-install-node-red-dashboard-cannot-find-module-node-red-dashboard/19420/7 "2019-12-23T15:00:29Z")
don't do it in `.node-red/node_modules` - do it in `.node-red`