Appium directory is invalid , unable to start application run in ubuntu

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I want to use katalon studio for testing android app i install Appium but when i want run capture Object i get this error

unable to start application Reason :
Appium directory is invalid : cannot find appium executable

Details :

    java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.kms.katalon.core.appium.exception.AppiumStartException: Appium directory is invalid: Cannot find appium executable file.
at com.kms.katalon.composer.components.impl.dialogs.ProgressMonitorDialogWithThread.runAndWait(ProgressMonitorDialogWithThread.java:49)
at com.kms.katalon.composer.mobile.objectspy.components.MobileLocalAppComposite$12.run(MobileLocalAppComposite.java:474)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:119)
Caused by: com.kms.katalon.core.appium.exception.AppiumStartException: Appium directory is invalid: Cannot find appium executable file.
at com.kms.katalon.core.appium.driver.AppiumDriverManager.findAppiumJS(AppiumDriverManager.java:386)
at com.kms.katalon.core.appium.driver.AppiumDriverManager.startAppiumServer(AppiumDriverManager.java:301)
at com.kms.katalon.core.appium.driver.AppiumDriverManager.startAppiumServerJS(AppiumDriverManager.java:261)
at com.kms.katalon.composer.mobile.objectspy.dialog.MobileInspectorController.startMobileApp(MobileInspectorController.java:189)
at com.kms.katalon.composer.mobile.objectspy.components.MobileLocalAppComposite$12$1.call(MobileLocalAppComposite.java:479)
at com.kms.katalon.composer.components.impl.dialogs.ProgressMonitorDialogWithThread.startThreadAndWait(ProgressMonitorDialogWithThread.java:36)
at com.kms.katalon.composer.components.impl.dialogs.ProgressMonitorDialogWithThread.runAndWait(ProgressMonitorDialogWithThread.java:48)
... 2 more
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Hi @arefmws,

In the Katalon Studio-Preferences->Katalon->Mobile settings, what is your Appium Directory set to? It should look something like this:

/Users/chris/.nvm/versions/node/v9.2.0/lib/node_modules/appium

NOTE: it’s not to the Appium bin directory.

Hope this helps,

Chris

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