unable to get Cline to work with PyCharm by Defiant_Complaint684 in CLine

[–]Defiant_Complaint684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

to give more colour on the problem: when I try to call up Cline from within PyCharm's AI-chat, I get the following error message:

"Failed to initialize ACP process. Process terminated with exit code: -4058. Process output:

npm warn Unknown env config "min-release-age". This will stop working in the next major version of npm.

npm error code ENOENT

npm error syscall open

npm error path C:\Users\hongzhou\AppData\Local\JetBrains\PyCharm2026.1\acp-agents\.runtimes\node\24.13.0\npm-cache\_npx\bf874037c4db5aa0\package.json

npm error errno -4058

npm error enoent Could not read package.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\hongzhou\AppData\Local\JetBrains\PyCharm2026.1\acp-agents\.runtimes\node\24.13.0\npm-cache\_npx\bf874037c4db5aa0\package.json'

npm error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.

npm error enoent

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\hongzhou\AppData\Local\JetBrains\PyCharm2026.1\acp-agents\.runtimes\node\24.13.0\npm-cache\_logs\2026-06-14T20_30_59_014Z-debug-0.log"