I am having an issue with the path that my node packages are installing on Windows 8.1. Having installed node using Chocolatey I done the following steps:
Install Chocolatey
choco install npm
npm install -g grunt-cli
So having done the above I open a cmd prompt in admin mode and type 'npm', it works fine from any directory an gives me the usual npm usage stuff. Next I type 'grunt' and I get ''grunt' is not recognized as an internal or external command...'.
So straight away I think this is a PATH problem which it most likely is.
My PATH had nothing to do with npm on it, so I added 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm' to it, tried 'grunt' again with no luck. I looked inside 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules' and nothing is installed so I ran 'npm install -g grunt-cli' again and noticed
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.33\tools\grunt -> C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline
.0.10.33\tools\node_modules\grunt-cli\bin\grunt
grunt-cli#0.1.13 C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.33\tools\node_modules\grunt-cli
├── resolve#0.3.1
├── nopt#1.0.10 (abbrev#1.0.5)
└── findup-sync#0.1.3 (lodash#2.4.1, glob#3.2.11)
So from looking at this npm is installing everything in 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.33\tools\node_modules' my question is should I just add this to my path and work ahead or is there something I can do to get npm to use the default install location in 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm' as the npm-cache in 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache' seems to filling up as expected?
Thanks
NPM might be tool old from that package. It's my understanding they are no longer offering a separate NPM away from NodeJS (I could be incorrect here, I'd love to be wrong).
I'd prefer using the nodejs.install package (which comes with npm).
To answer your question: the location with a package version is not optimal, but I'm not sure that NPM knows a better location as of the version that is out. I don't have a good answer for you on getting NPM to look at the correct install location based on using the NPM package (which is 1.4.9). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_(software)
Thanks for the reply, your exactly right from my understanding. It's a problem with installing npm via chocolatey which is what I was thinking also but you clarified it.
The fix was to delete the chocolatey node_modules folders and npm from chocolatey, tidy up my PATH and then install node.js from the node.js website and npm comes packaged with that, it updated my PATH and everything now works as expected.
Thanks again!
Related
Obviously I need to download DocPad (file(s)) before I can do an npm install, but it simply isn't clear to me what to download, etc. I know the file(s) I need are on GitHub, but I don't have the background to understand what I'm looking at. Can you give me, or point me to, a "Download DocPad for Dummies" instructions? Thank you.
To extend on #sindis's comment
When you install Node, you will also install npm, which serves as the node package manager.
npm allows you to install packages globally using the -g flag, which installs a package that has been published to npm (such as DocPad) to wherever the npm global installation directory is, and make DocPad's command line tools available to you.
So by installing DocPad with npm install -g docpad#6.78 (6.78 is the version of DocPad that the command above wishes to install) we will install DocPad to the global npm installation directory, which makes the command line tool docpad available for your use.
I've updated the DocPad installation guide to be a bit clearer about this, suggestions welcome.
The installation of DocPad is all controlled by NPM. So once that is installed, all you should need to do to install DocPad is run the npm command, as others have said, npm install docpad -g.
Now, the gotcha in windows is that you might need to execute this command with elevated rights - ie Administrator. Windows doesn't like you installing programs in its root program directory.
I have Windows 7 32-bit. I installed the latest Node.js 32 bit.
When I try to run the command npm install jquery, I receive the error:
Error: ENOENT, stat 'C:\Users\RT\AppData\Roaming\npm
How does one resolve it?
Manually creating a folder named 'npm' in the displayed path fixed the problem.
More information can be found on Troubleshooting page
I ran into the same problem while installing a package via npm.
After creating the npm folder manually in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\ that particular error was gone, but it gave similar multiple errors as it tried to create additional directories in the npm folder and failed. The issue was resolved after running the command prompt as an administrator.
This can also be fixed by installing a node package manually.
npm install npm -g
The process of doing that will setup all the required directories.
I recommend setting an alternative location for your npm modules.
npm config set prefix C:\Dev\npm-repository\npm --global
npm config set cache C:\Dev\npm-repository\npm-cache --global
Of course you can set the location to wherever best suits.
This has worked well for me and gets around any permissions issues that you may encounter.
You can go to the Start Menu and search the Node.js icon and open the shell and then install anything with
install <packagename> -g
Install a stable version instead of the latest one, I have downgrade my version to node-v0.10.29-x86.msi from 'node-v0.10.33-x86.msi' and it is working well for me!
http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/06/16/node-v0-10-29-stable/
I needed a package from github that was written in typscript. I did a git pull of the most recent version from the master branch into the root of my main project. I then went into the directory and did an npm install so that the gulp commands would work that generates ES5 modules. Anyway, to make the long story short, my build process was trying to build files from this new folder so I had to move it out of my root. This was causing these same errors.
I have been searching for a solution for two days now to setup Phonegap on my Windows 8.1
system without any success.
Whenever I try to install Phonegap through npm I get an error that I think has to do
with Cordova(-lib).
To install Phonegap I had to install Node.js (v0.10.28) on my system. After this I opened up Windows Powershell and issued the following command like instructed on the Phonegap website:
npm install -g phonegap
Output: (This is the only part of the error)
error notarget No compatible version found: cordova-lib#'lorinbeer/cordova-lib.git#configparser_module'
error notarget Valid install targets:
error notarget ["0.21.2","0.21.3"]
error notarget
error notarget This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.
error notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
error notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
I also tried installing just Cordova through the npm and then install Phonegap, but that
didn't solve anything either.
Running the Powershell with administrator rights also didn't help and tried solutions of other people who also had problems setting up Phonegap, but nothing works.
I really hope that someone could help me out here.
Thanks in advance.
Download the older version. I think there was a problem in the new one
npm install -g phonegap#3.4
I tried this and worked for me.
I had the same issue yesterday. If you check npm-debug.log, you'll notice that there is a permission issue ("Permission denied") when npm tries to access the cordova-lib git repository url. Actually, cordova-lib is a dependency for phonegap. So, it can't install it and I think that's why you get that error.
So, I tried this: install cordova-lib first then Phonegap. Yet, it still won't work; npm does not seem to check if cordova-lib is installed before trying to do it.
At this point, what I could do is to change the repository from which it retrieves cordova-lib. Here is the NPM install syntax:
npm install <tarball file>
npm install <tarball url>
npm install <folder>
npm install <pkg>
npm install <pkg>#<tag>
npm install <pkg>#<version>
npm install <pkg>#<version range>
This means I can install from a tar.gz file. Great! So, I just went to this page https://www.npmjs.org/package/phonegap to check the phonegap repository and performed these steps:
Download the zip of phonegap-cli repo (https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-cli/archive/master.zip)
Unzip it
Open the package.json file and find the cordova-lib entry in dependencies (line 32)
Change the value to 0.21.3 which is the last version.
Recreate an archive of the folder to the tar.gz format
Open your CLI and run this command:
npm install -g path/to/archive/phonegap-cli-master.tar.gz
It should work now.
Hope that help!
I had a similar problem today too on Mac, even after Lorenzo said it should be all fine. Just running this:
sudo npm install -g phonegap
... produced loads of errors like this:
error: file ./objects/pack/pack-48c0ff4147fb7e8922546c4a857b98a1cb48e01f.pack is far too short to be a packfile
I combined Lorenzo and arpan shah's solutions:
sudo npm install -g phonegap#3.4
sudo npm cache clean
sudo npm update -g phone gap
... and it seemed to magically work.
Problem
We published with a dependency on a branch of cordova-lib. This fork appears unavailable when lots of requests are coming through (I think). One way or another, it's unreliable.
Changing the dependency to 0.21.3 will cause commands to fail, but will allow the install.
Solutions
update the 'cordova-lib' dependency to the npm published version '0.21.3'
**note, this will allow the install, but other phonegap commands will fail
wait for about 20 minutes, then npm update -g phonegap
testing an update to resolve this issue
further updates momentarily
update
We've pushed version 3.5.0-0.20.3 which should resolve this issue
$ npm update -g phonegap
if that doesn't work, try
$ npm cache clean
and reinstall phonegap
I tryed above comamnds npm cache clear and reinstall phoegap. It downloaded all libs but not command line scripts (phonegap command had still 3.4 as version). I found that better was to give command: npm install -g cordova (v 3.5)!
I'm trying to use grunt with sass and have been following these guides:
http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
http://benfrain.com/lightning-fast-sass-compiling-with-libsass-node-sass-and-grunt-sass/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/grunt-command-not-found/
I've:
Intsalled node.js
Installed the command-line version of grunt: sudo npm install -g grunt -cli
Added the path from the grunt installer to my bash profile: export PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt/bin:$PATH
Made the profile an executable: source ~/.bash_profile
Setup package.json and Gruntfile.js files in my project root
Installed grunt into the project: cd /path/to/project/root/ and sudo npm install
But when I try to run grunt I see: command not found
It's the same if I run: grunt --version
I wasn't sure if the bash path needs /bin on the end as per the blog posted above but have tried it both ways:
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt/ and /usr/local/lib/node_modules/grunt/bin/
I've also run the grunt installer several times but didn't see any errors so am positive it's installed - can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I'm running OSX mavericks incase this is the issue.
Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Cheers
You have a typo in your command. The package is named grunt-cli without the space.
Update the command to:
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
And all should work as expected.
Hope this solution also might be helpful to someone. In my case it was a bit trickier.
In command line type the following command
npm install grunt-cli -g
This will show you the location where the grun client is installed:
Copy this location and paste it into a file browser. Was this in my case.
C:\Users\zkhaymed\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\grunt-cli\bin
This will open you the location of a grunt file.
Click on the address line of the location and copy it as a text clicking on the right mouse button.
Now go to the Advanced properties of the system at control panel, and paste this address into a System variables and user variables without deleting the other variables.
I was having a very similar issue, hopefully this helps.
1) You want to check where node and npm are actually installed. If you used a package manager, such as Homebrew or MacPorts, there may be an issue with the location. Just use the downloadable installer from node.js website. Make sure to use the current version, not the long term support (LTS). The installer will install node and npm in /usr/local/bin, which should already be in your PATH. If you already have node/npm installed you can use which node and which npm to see where they are currently located. You should see /usr/local/bin/node and /usr/local/bin/npm, respectively. You will need to update npm after installing with npm update -g npm. This may require sudo.
2) Once node and npm are correctly installed/updated go to the project's root directory (where you have the Gruntfile.js and package.json) and install Grunt using npm install grunt --save-dev. Remember that Grunt After doing so you should see a new folder called node_modules.
3) Make sure to do the previous step before installing the CLI. You can use Grunt's getting started documentation to help guide you the rest of the way. Just be aware that the instructions for installing Grunt are further down the page than installing the CLI, which makes it somewhat confusing. When Grunt and Grunt-CLI are installed run npm install and run grunt in the command line to execute your Gruntfile.js.
You should now be able to see the versions installed. Note that if you are outside of a project's root directory you will not see a version of Grunt but you will see the Grunt-CLI version. This is because the CLI was installed globally (used from any directory/subdirectory) but Grunt is installed on a per-project basis.
Hopefully this helps!
I just ran into this scenario as well. The following worked for me:
Try deleting C:/Users/{username}/AppData/Roaming/npm and C:/Users/{username}/AppData/Roaming/npm-cache (if it exists) and reinstalling global npm modules.
Source: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/29287
I had to add this to the PATH (on a Mac after brew install node ):
export NPM_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.3.1/libexec/npm
The npm install was not effective, no matter what args I passed to it.
Hi I am learning LESS and I would like to install lessc on my Windows 7.
Following this tutorial http://verekia.com/less-css/dont-read-less-css-tutorial-highly-addictive
The first step is I dowloaded and installed node.js (node-v0.10.5-x64.msi).
Then in a console, I ran
npm install less -g
I got the following:
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/less
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/less
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ycssmin
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ycssmin
C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\npm\lessc -> C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\less\bin\lessc
less#1.3.3 C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\less
+-- ycssmin#1.0.1
Then I ran the following in the same console:
lessc style.less > style.css
But I got
'lessc' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I am not sure where I got wrong. I googled but it seems there is too much stuff, not sure which one is right. Did many tests without any success.
Could someone tell me how to do it or give me a pointer to some place with detailed and latest install info for Windows?
In a console, run the following:
node C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\less\bin\lessc style.less > style.css
style.less must be in the console's directory.
step 1: npm install less -g
step 2: npm i less --save-dev
to get lessc working you have to add
C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\npm
to the path
I guess you could add the bin folder in system properties -> advanced ->environment variables and append the whole path to the bin folder by edited the Path variable.
If you just installed node.js, the windows PATH variable won't be updated within any running CMD windows. Try closing CMD and reopening it!
I fixed this issue by using Node Version Manager (nvm) to install and use the latest version of Node.js
nvm install latest
nvm use 12.4.0
After that I navigated to my project folder and typed:
npm install less -g and then
npm i less --save-dev
Finally I typed lessc less/index.less css/index.css to compile my less.
If you are using windows, don't forget to open the command line console as an administrator.
After spending around number of hours hunting around to compile less files, I got very simple answer:
download node-v0.10.26-x64.msi for windows users -> install it -> then
go to any folder(in command prompt) where *.less files are located and run the command
"lessc styles.lsss > styles.css". (Example: in command prompt, less is my less folder where *.less files exist)
D:\less>lessc styles.less > styles.css
now you will get styles.css files created automatically. Open and see styles.css file
Well, you must have NodeJS installed on your machine, use this link to download and install it.
Once installed make sure to restart your machine.
Then check whether it is properly installed by running "node -v" and "npm -v" in CMD.
Once that is done run "npm install less -g" and you are ready to compile your less files.
Just go into the directory where your files are and run "lessc style.less style.css"
More can be found on this link.