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Posted by Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points

Unable to install bower or any other packages globally using npm

I have installed node.js and it works. but when i try to install a package using npm it throws me bunch of errors. Thank in advance, Svetlana!

8 Answers

Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

I found this stackoverflow post that may help. Of particular interest are some of the posted answers.

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Robert Richey
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  • What is your operating system?
  • What are the error messages?
Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points
Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points
  • My operating system is Mac OSX Yosemite. -My error messages are:

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, unlink '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, unlink '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'] npm ERR! errno: 3, npm ERR! code: 'EACCES', npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' } npm ERR! npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Darwin 14.0.0 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower" npm ERR! cwd /Users/maxmac npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33 npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno 3 npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, unlink '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR! error rolling back Error: EACCES, unlink '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR! error rolling back { [Error: EACCES, unlink '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'] npm ERR! error rolling back errno: 3, npm ERR! error rolling back code: 'EACCES', npm ERR! error rolling back path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' } npm ERR! not ok code 0

Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points
Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points

Thanks, That helped. :smile:

Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points
Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points

I have installed bower but I couldn't install any package: bower cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.0 bower validate 2.1.0 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#* bower ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git", exit code of #1

Additional error details: xcrun: error: active developer path ("/Users/maxmac/Desktop/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer") does not exist, use xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app to specify the Xcode that you wish to use for command line developer tools (or see man xcode-select) Svetlanas-iMac:node.jsTest maxmac$ bower install bower ENOENT No bower.json present

Robert Richey
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Robert Richey
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Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

This post suggests a potential firewall issue.

Or this post suggests changing the git config protocol from git:// to https://

If these don't work, the search term I used in Google was "bower ECMDERR Failed to execute". Good luck.

Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points
Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points

ok i will try it later on

Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
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Maxim Kontsevitch
Maxim Kontsevitch
25,447 Points

ok i will try it later on