I am suddenly unable to start hardhat

[auditism]

Hello everyone, until now I've been able to keep up with the course until lesson 9.
At the beginning of lesson 9 I started a new project and wanted to set up hardhat and I am facing an error that I haven't been able to figure out.
I am running on WSL, now whenever I try to do yarn hardhat I get this error

Error: Cannot find module '@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox'
Require stack:
- /home/giorgio/hardhat.config.js
- /home/giorgio/PAT-COL/the-smartlottery/node_modules/hardhat/internal/core/config/config-loading.js
- /home/giorgio/PAT-COL/the-smartlottery/node_modules/hardhat/internal/cli/cli.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/giorgio/hardhat.config.js:1:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1103:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1157:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/home/giorgio/hardhat.config.js',
    '/home/giorgio/PAT-COL/the-smartlottery/node_modules/hardhat/internal/core/config/config-loading.js',
    '/home/giorgio/PAT-COL/the-smartlottery/node_modules/hardhat/internal/cli/cli.js'
  ]
}

I tried to install @nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox since it says that it is missing but I am still getting the same error. I tried to start over many times, I tried with yarn or npm/npx but I still get the same issue.
This is my current config

Has anyone faced similar issue and got over it ?
Good day,
Giorgio

[waleedcj]

do you have Linux for windows? looks something like this

make a new directory there and install hardhat let me know if it works

also see if this thread helps
NomicFoundation/hardhat#1400

[auditism]

I just tried the commands I was trying before in the ubuntu terminal, I had the same error but I installed the hardhat-toolbox with the command
yarn add --dev @nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox @nomicfoundation/hardhat-network-helpers @nomicfoundation/hardhat-chai-matchers @nomiclabs/hardhat-ethers @nomiclabs/hardhat-etherscan chai ethers hardhat-gas-reporter solidity-coverage @typechain/hardhat typechain @typechain/ethers-v5 @ethersproject/abi @ethersproject/providers
I did
yarn hardhat
again and I had the same setup as in the hardhat debugging tutorial, so I fixed it with the
yarn hardhat --verbose
to find the file that needs to be deleted
Now I guess I am all set, thank you !

[waleedcj]

Amazing!! mark your comment as an answer with the command that fixed the issue thanks !!