# Appium tests / setup

**URL:** https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/appium-tests-setup/1122
**Category:** Question & Answer
**Tags:** appium
**Created:** [March 14, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/appium-tests-setup/1122 "2017-03-14T13:06:44Z")
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### Author: ![viktorbenei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.bitrise.io/viktorbenei/32/18_2.png) [@viktorbenei](https://discuss.bitrise.io/u/viktorbenei)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/appium-tests-setup/1122/14 "2017-10-06T11:40:52Z")

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Just to connect the discussions, the report & fix can be found here:

> [@Cannot install appium on Android, Ubuntu stack](http://discuss.bitrise.io/t/cannot-install-appium-on-android-ubuntu-stack/2904/5):
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> Looks like it’s a bug of npm . [https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7525#issuecomment-266800539](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7525#issuecomment-266800539) I did switch back to older version of npm and able to install appium on android-docker. npm uninstall -g appium npm install -g npm@4.0.5 npm install -g appium

Thanks @han.tran! 🙂

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