installation of bean-sdk requires adjusted command as latest version of one dependency no longer works

[Mr-onno]

bean-sdk has a number of dependencies. These depencies are automatically installed as sub-modules by npm. For all of these dependencies but one, the version is specified in package.json. This ensures that when installing bean-sdk, compatible versions of the dependencies are also installed.

For one dependency, commander, the version is not specified and npm will install the latest version. But somewhere after July 2020, a new version of commander was released that is no longer compatible with bean-sdk.

Therefore, you need to tell npm to use a specific version of commander when installing bean-sdk.
This can be done in the following way:

npm install -g --unsafe-perm [email protected] bean-sdk

The makers of bean-sdk can correct this in the npm package, but as the lightblue bean is no longer supported, I assume this will not happen.