Error Installing Fontawesome

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Hello,

I’ve been going through this course on YouTube - Learn Bootstrap 5 and SASS by Building a Portfolio Website 5 hour course 9

I get the following error code when I try to install Fontawesome

$ npm install --save @fontawesome/fontawesome-free
npm ERR! code ENOTFOUND
npm ERR! errno ENOTFOUND
npm ERR! network request to https://registry.npmjs.org/@fontawesome%2Ffontawesome-free failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND registry.npmjs.org
npm ERR! network This is a problem related to network connectivity.
npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm ERR! network
npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! network ‘proxy’ config is set properly. See: ‘npm help config’

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-06-27T19_12_57_378Z-debug.log

I need help please. Thanks in anticipation

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it looks like you don’t have an active internet connection or you’re using a firewall

3

Hi @reubendicksonebong !

Maybe you can use the fontawesome icons cdn instead.

You can add this link tag to your code.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css" integrity="sha512-iBBXm8fW90+nuLcSKlbmrPcLa0OT92xO1BIsZ+ywDWZCvqsWgccV3gFoRBv0z+8dLJgyAHIhR35VZc2oM/gI1w==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" />
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Thanks for your response.

I do have an active internet connection and I’ve been able to install the other dependencies without issues.

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Thanks for your response.

I’ll try to use the CDN as you’ve suggested. However for the purpose of learning I really wish to understand why I’m not being able to install it so as to know how to go about that in the future.

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This is what the error log says maybe you should try restarting your router

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Thanks again. I’ve done that severally. I still doubt it has something to do with my connectivity as I was able to install the other dependencies without issues.

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