-> Wollok CLI without Admin Rights

Wollok Command Line Interface: without admin permissions

If you’re on a machine without administrator permissions, for example on a university lab machine or a work computer, we recommend following these steps.

Installation on Windows

Enable script execution

Open a Powershell Terminal window and run:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Confirm it’s correctly configured:

Get-ExecutionPolicy
RemoteSigned # expected response

Download Node as executable

First confirm that we don’t have Node installed:

node -v
node: The term 'node' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Go to Node’s download page, it will have the LTS version of Node pre-selected.

Download Node zip

Choose the option that says Or get a prebuild Node.js for... for Windows, and finally click on Standalone Binary (.zip).

Unzip and move to a common folder $HOME\node. $HOME is your user’s root folder, which can be C:\Users\Username for example. Note that the node folder must contain the executables, like node.exe. If you see that inside the node folder there’s another folder node-v22.19.0-win-x64 or similar, this means you need to move the files from that subfolder to the parent node folder. The file structure should look like this:

C:\
  + Users
    + Username # your username
      + node
        + node.exe
        + npm.cmd

Make Node executable from any folder

To do this, you need to add the node folder to the user’s PATH. Run from a Powershell terminal:

# Step 1, test if there's a profile
Test-Path $PROFILE
# if it responds True, go to step 2
# if it responds False, run the following commands
New-Item -Path (Split-Path $PROFILE -Parent) -ItemType Directory -Force
New-Item -Path $PROFILE -Type File -Force

# Step 2, edit the profile
notepad $PROFILE

When opening the file, write the following lines:

$nodePath = "$env:USERPROFILE\node"
if ($env:PATH -notlike "*$nodePath*") {
    $env:PATH += ";$nodePath"
}
Set-Alias npm npm.cmd

Save the file and close Notepad.

Then verify how the PATH variable looks. Close and open a new Powershell terminal:

$env:PATH

The PATH should now contain the folder C:\Users\Username\node, where Username is your username.

Run:

node -v

It should show the Node version we installed, like v22.19.0.

Downloading npm

From the terminal run:

Unblock-File -Path $HOME\node\npm.ps1

Verify that the Node package downloader works:

npm -v

The version should appear.

Downloading the CLI

Now install wollok by running:

npm i -g wollok-ts-cli

Verify that we have Wollok CLI installed. In the terminal type:

wollok --version

Verify wollok ts cli

Installation on Linux

Download Node and npm

Go to the official Node download page.

Download Node

Choose the default option (LTS), where nvm and npm are installed, and run in a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):

# Download nvm (node version manager)
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash

# Restart the shell
\. "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"

# Download npm
nvm install 22

# Verifications: node
node -v # should show the installed node version

# Verifications: npm
npm -v # should show the installed npm version

Now install wollok by running:

npm i -g wollok-ts-cli

Verify that we have Wollok CLI installed. In the terminal type:

wollok --version

Verify Linux wollok ts cli