azure-pipelines-agent: Error while saving the cache : [error]Failed to start the required dependency 'tar'. Please verify the correct version is installed and available on the path.
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Agent Version and Platform
Version of your agent? 2.144.0/2.144.1/…
OS of the machine running the agent? OSX/Windows/Linux/…
Azure DevOps Type and Version
dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com) or on-premises TFS/Azure DevOps Server?
If on-premises, which release? 2015.0, 2017.1, 2019 RC2, etc.
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- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions: 4
- Comments: 19 (3 by maintainers)
Having the same problem when using NPM cache. Post build task fails with:
##[error]Failed to start the required dependency ‘tar’. Please verify the correct version is installed and available on the path.
Running a windows agent.
@nithyusha23 @jlabaj @matthoulb you can specify path that the tar either in Path environment variable or by specifying ‘VSTS_TAR_EXECUTABLE’ environment variable also - could you please try second approach?
Here same error too. Trying to use npm cache in order to increase a deployment speed but post cache task is showing the follow error: ##[error]Failed to start the required dependency ‘tar’. Please verify the correct version is installed and available on the path.
@fadnavistanmay - Can you take a look at this?