# Tried Ember s and got error

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/tried-ember-s-and-got-error/17038>\
**Category:** Ember CLI\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/tried-ember-s-and-got-error/17038 "2019-09-10T02:47:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![luvi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@luvi](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/luvi)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/tried-ember-s-and-got-error/17038/1 "2019-09-10T02:47:07Z")

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I am a new Ember learner. I got the following error when I run command ember serve Could you please help?

ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\myproject\tmp\source\_map\_concat-input\_base\_path-H8VzGZjE.tmp\bower\_components\pdfmake\build\pdfmake.js’

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**Author:** ![NullVoxPopuli](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/nullvoxpopuli/32/18691_2.png) [@NullVoxPopuli](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/NullVoxPopuli)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/tried-ember-s-and-got-error/17038/2 "2019-09-10T09:25:28Z")

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What version of ember, and windows are you using? Which shell are you using?

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**Author:** ![acorncom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/acorncom/32/12198_2.png) [@acorncom](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/acorncom)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/tried-ember-s-and-got-error/17038/3 "2019-09-12T19:19:24Z")

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Also, it looks like you may be missing a bower dependency, which makes it look like this is an older Ember app. Have you installed Bower and run `bower install`?