Unable to Deploy into production

[Sewanee-raval]

Describe the bug
Following the Deployment instructions I issue a 'npm run build' and get the following error:

failed to load config from /opt/kener/vite.config.js
error during build:
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@sveltejs/kit' imported from /opt/kener/vite.config.js.timestamp-1728942543403-93ffb8dbf283b.mjs
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:854:9)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:927:18)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1169:11)
    at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:383:12)
    at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:352:25)
    at ModuleLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:227:38)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:87:39)
    at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:86:36)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Download the code from github
Follow the procedure for dev enviroment.
After testing dev, move site into production

export NODE_ENV=production
npm i
npm run build

Expected behavior
I expect that npm run build will complete and allow me to proceed to npm run serve

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Server(please complete the following information):

• OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.4
• Browser chrome

Additional context
I have tried installing @sveltejs/kit globally 'npm install --global @sveltejs/kit' with the same failed result.

I have run the Deployment without setting NODE_ENV=production and it appears to complete the build however, once I set the NODE_ENV=production, it complains about [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@sveltejs/kit'

[rajnandan1]

Have you tried using

npm run kener:build

and to run

npm run kener