Issue running the npx hardhat init

[albertisaac12]

While running the following command I encounter the following issues

npm install --save-dev hardhat@latest

Issues:

npm warn deprecated inflight@1.0.6: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm warn deprecated glob@7.2.0: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated glob@8.1.0: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported

After the following , I can see that the package.json was updated with the devDependencies as follows

{
 "devDependencies": {
   "hardhat": "^2.22.9"
 }
}

After this, I run the following command which results in errors

npx hardhat init

Errors:

npm error code ERR_INVALID_URL
npm error Invalid URL
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: [log location]

For better understanding here is the audit report

elliptic  2.0.0 - 6.5.6
Elliptic's EDDSA missing signature length check - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p
Elliptic's ECDSA missing check for whether leading bit of r and s is zero - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
Elliptic allows BER-encoded signatures - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49q7-c7j4-3p7m
fix available via `npm audit fix --force`
Will install hardhat@2.3.3, which is a breaking change
node_modules/elliptic
  @ethersproject/signing-key  <=5.7.0
  Depends on vulnerable versions of elliptic
  node_modules/@ethersproject/signing-key
    @ethersproject/transactions  <=5.7.0
    Depends on vulnerable versions of @ethersproject/signing-key
    node_modules/@ethersproject/transactions
      @ethersproject/abstract-provider  *
      Depends on vulnerable versions of @ethersproject/transactions
      node_modules/@ethersproject/abstract-provider
        @ethersproject/abstract-signer  *
        Depends on vulnerable versions of @ethersproject/abstract-provider
        node_modules/@ethersproject/abstract-signer
          @ethersproject/hash  5.0.6 - 5.7.0
          Depends on vulnerable versions of @ethersproject/abstract-signer
          node_modules/@ethersproject/hash
            @ethersproject/abi  5.0.10 - 5.7.0
            Depends on vulnerable versions of @ethersproject/hash
            node_modules/@ethersproject/abi
              hardhat  >=2.4.0-rc.0
              Depends on vulnerable versions of @ethersproject/abi
              node_modules/hardhat

Neither the npm audit fix nor the npm audit fix --force seem to work

[albertisaac12]

Hey folks,
The issue has been resolved. It turned out that the problem was with npx the system variables for npx were not set correctly.