# Serverless Installation issues on Windows

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/serverless-installation-issues-on-windows/14721>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Created:** [April 13, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/serverless-installation-issues-on-windows/14721 "2021-04-13T16:49:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![lubbdubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@lubbdubb](https://forum.serverless.com/u/lubbdubb)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/serverless-installation-issues-on-windows/14721/1 "2021-04-13T16:49:39Z")

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Hi All, I am in the process of installing of serverless framework on my windows laptop using npm and for some reason it did not install properly. Also none of the plugins were installed too. Getting the following error for command **sls plugin list**

Fetch Error ---------------------------------------------  
FetchError: request to [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/serverless/plugins/master/plugins.json](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/serverless/plugins/master/plugins.json) failed, reason: unable to verify the first certificate  
at ClientRequest. (C:\Users\<user\>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node\_modules\serverless\node\_modules\node-fetch\lib\index.js:1461:11)  
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:315:20)  
at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:467:12)  
at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (\_http\_client.js:469:9)  
at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:315:20)  
at TLSSocket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:467:12)  
at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:106:8)  
at emitErrorCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:74:3)  
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task\_queues.js:80:21)  
For debugging logs, run again after setting the “SLS\_DEBUG=\*” environment variable.  
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Operating System: win32  
Node Version: 14.16.1  
Framework Version: 2.35.0  
Plugin Version: 4.5.3  
SDK Version: 4.2.2  
Components Version: 3.8.2
