Refusing to install package with name "amazon-chime-sdk-js"

[lawrencepit]

On a fresh Amazon Linux EC2 instance:

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-101-221 ~]$ git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-chime-sdk-js.git
Cloning into 'amazon-chime-sdk-js'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 262, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (262/262), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (190/190), done.
remote: Total 1685 (delta 69), reused 200 (delta 51), pack-reused 1423
Receiving objects: 100% (1685/1685), 838.40 KiB | 1.88 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (708/708), done.

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-101-221 ~]$ cd amazon-chime-sdk-js/

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-101-221 amazon-chime-sdk-js]$ node -v
v13.3.0

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-101-221 amazon-chime-sdk-js]$ npm -v
6.13.1

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-101-221 amazon-chime-sdk-js]$ npm install amazon-chime-sdk-js --save
npm ERR! code ENOSELF
npm ERR! Refusing to install package with name "amazon-chime-sdk-js" under a package
npm ERR! also called "amazon-chime-sdk-js". Did you name your project the same
npm ERR! as the dependency you're installing?
npm ERR!
npm ERR! For more information, see:
npm ERR!     <https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install#limitations-of-npms-install-algorithm>

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/ec2-user/.npm/_logs/2019-12-05T05_44_16_302Z-debug.log

[andi-amzn]

@lawrencepit, thanks for sharing your console output. It looks like you cloned the repo from source and then tried to install the package from npm into the same repo directory, hence the error. You only need to do one of those depending on what you are trying to do.

If you are looking to run the demos, then you don't need to install from npm. The source checkout has everything you need to run the demos.

You would use npm install if you were to integrate this library into an existing application.

I see now from our README.md that it could be more clear about when to use npm install. I will update this to be more clear about which situations you would want to run npm install.