# Cant yarn install anymore windows 10

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**Category:** mediasoup libraries\
**Created:** [March 11, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/cant-yarn-install-anymore-windows-10/5041 "2023-03-11T16:12:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![kayhhh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mediasoup.discourse.group/kayhhh/32/2060_2.png) [@kayhhh](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/u/kayhhh)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/cant-yarn-install-anymore-windows-10/5041/1 "2023-03-11T16:12:47Z")

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I’ve been using mediasoup for a while now without issue, but recently I haven’t been able to `yarn install` it. Mediasoup version `3.11.12`, ive tried a few other versions and all give the same error.

It looks like its saying python or pip is unavailable but i dont know what has changed, they still seem available to me.

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**Author:** ![snnz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mediasoup.discourse.group/snnz/32/693_2.png) [@snnz](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/u/snnz)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/cant-yarn-install-anymore-windows-10/5041/2 "2023-03-11T17:21:14Z")

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That folder, C:\Users.…\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps, is very special. The user has no read access to anything there, even with elevated privileges. He can only execute programs from that folder. But, GNU `make` always tries to open and read an executable before running it (checks if by chance it contains a shell script instead of a binary program). Hence the error: “Cannot open”.

So, uninstall currently installed Python. Then go to system Settings → Apps & features → App execution aliases, disable App Installer python.exe and python3.exe. And then install Python from [Download Python | Python.org](https://www.python.org/downloads/)

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**Author:** ![kayhhh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mediasoup.discourse.group/kayhhh/32/2060_2.png) [@kayhhh](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/u/kayhhh)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/cant-yarn-install-anymore-windows-10/5041/3 "2023-03-11T17:30:56Z")

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It worked! Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏 Really appreciate the explanation.