Angular-cli installs but doesnt start new project: package install failed, see above

[ktn00b]

BUILD: Windows 10 angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.24 node: 6.9.4 os: win32 x64 npm: 3.10.10

LOG for ng new command

LOG for npm install -g -f angular-cli

I cant start a new project in angular-cli, I get some errors while giving the command "ng new xyz-app"

FYI I uninstalled and re-installed angular-cli using the -f handle, after going through other threads describing a similar issue. That did not help. I also reinstalled node (was on npm 4.0.5 earlier, now on 3.10.10). Error on starting new project is:

Package Install failed, see above.

If I anyway cd into the xyz directory and run npm serve, I get-

You seem to not be dependending on "@angular/core". This is an error.

I just had a look at installation log, it is full of errors.

[beeman]

@IndDev thanks for creating the issue.

It looks like this is a duplicate of https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/2344 , as it seems from your logs that the installation of node-gyp fails, the first error being:

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\ketanw\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=C:\Users\ketanw\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\fsevents\lib\binding\Release\node-v48-win32-x64\fse.node --module_name=fse --module_path=C:\Users\ketanw\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\fsevents\lib\binding\Release\node-v48-win32-x64' (1)

[ktn00b]

Thanks for the quick reply. I installed that package separately using the command-

npm install -g node-pre-gyp

Then I re-installed angular-cli and tried to initialize a new project. Didnt see an error in angular install but same error in ng new:

angular-cli log

ng new log

The error is:

Package install failed, see above.

Thinking angular-cli reinstall must have fiddled something, I again installed node-pre-gyp and tried ng new again. Still getting the same error message in ng new command.

EDIT- Log after again installing pre-gyp

[eight-molecules]

node-pre-gyp is meant to be installed locally to each project. Uninstall the global and try again without explicitly listing it.

Install

node-pre-gyp is designed to be installed as a local dependency of your Node.js C++ addon... node-pre-gyp#install

If that doesn't clear it up it may be a permissions issue. Windows isn't 1:1 with the Unix permissions it's most tested under and node-pre-gyp should be used as a Windows Administrator.

[ktn00b]

I uninstalled global node-pre-gyp using the commands edit- corrected - npm uninstall -g node-pre-gyp

Then I executed the following commands to install the package locally and initialize the angular skeleton-

mkdir xyz 
cd xyz
npm install node-pre-gyp
ng init

I still get the same error. If instead of 'ng init' I had done 'ng new' without installing pre-gyp, I would have still run into the same error. Am I installing node-pre-gyp in an incorrect manner?

EDIT- LOG of ng init

[eight-molecules]

The dependency isn't in your project, but the CLI installations themselves. node-pre-gyp is part of a C++ tool that is required to compile some of the CLI's dependencies. Without these compiling properly, the CLI tools won't function correctly due to errors in their imports.

Did you use a standard or administrator console to install the CLI?

[beeman]

@IndDev It might be that your issue is related to node-gyp, not node-pre-gyp.

Can you try to remove and reinstall node-gyp globally?

[ktn00b]

@gelliott181 I used an admin console. Anything related to npm I always make sure it is an admin console.

@beeman I searched online for issues related to node-gyp and it seems to be a sinkhole of issues, way too many people complaining of issues with node-gyp with no clear fix. It seems one way out of that mess is installing VisualCPP Build Tools, which is appx a 4GB install, besides several other smaller fixes.

In my experience, there was no error related to node-gyp when node or even angular was installing, but I do realize that npm contains its own version of node-gyp and prefers to use that instead of that listed in another package's json. Let me figure this out and get back in a couple hours.

EDIT/update- In the first install I did, yes node-gyp errors were there. As @beeman mentioned in his first comment. But those disappeared when I reinstalled everything. I will just give it a global reinstall (once I figure out how to do it) and report back

EDIT2: I also realized that after I uninstall angular, npm and even node, the folder node-gyp persists in AppData/Roaming/Npm/node_modules folder. So before I reinstall everything I will manually remove this folder.

[eight-molecules]

If that folder was persisting after an install something about the permissions changed causing it to be unusable to NPM and node.

I've yet to see an error about node-gyp under Windows that isn't related to some package mucking around with access rights. That was my reason for bumping node from v6.3 to v6.5 a few months back with a clean reinstall.

[filipesilva]

Your problem does seem to be node-gyp related but there isn't much we can do save for changing dependencies.

I can tell you that the CLI does not require node-gyp to be installed or to run though. Usually packages try to download a binary instead of building, and then fallback to building.

You can try to use the --no-optional flag on npm install, that might help.

[ktn00b]

@filipesilva I first manually removed modules in npm directory, also cleared the cache manually and then also using the command. Then I installed npm v4.1.1 using npm-windows-upgrade. Previously I had also followed the steps for node-gyp on their github page (https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp).

Installation of angular-cli didnt throw up errors this time. but creating a new project still leads to the same issue:

Package install failed, see above.

When I command ng serve, it says

You seem to not be dependending on "@angular/core". This is an error.

(dependending really?) At this point of time I really have no idea what to do... I am just trying to learn Angular 2 and just getting past the setup is proving to be quite painful!

[ktn00b]

Just want to add, I have no issues whatsoever when I use the angular-seed project (quickstart). That involved git cloning the quickstart folder, running an npm install and its done. What breaks here in cli?

[Limcap]

Hello people. I'm also having the same issue here on a ubuntu 14.04 x64 installed in virtualbox. I installed the @angular/cli globally, had some problems with dependencies missing, but fixed i with the #2704 json.package . However "ng new" always hangs and then fails. any news on this issue? UPDATE I found a work around executing ng new --skip-install PROJECT_NAME and then manually going into the created folder and typing npm install. I think it's a permission problem.

[filipesilva]

Fixed by https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/pull/5282

[babakhalid12]

Try Below one--- npm set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/ npm cache clean --force npm cache verify npm install

[vupendra]

i getting error please resolve it npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! npm-cache_logs\2018-11-14T10_48_21_213Z-debug.log Package install failed, see above.

[AjayMCA]

npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...lMYcrBG1gW4ZC4wzYHRd4'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\Surajit Roy\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-12-13T07_18_35_545Z-debug.log Package install failed, see above.

Facing This kind of issue to open new project.

[sanjeevjh]

i have this problem too!

[vupendra]

First u have to install file again and must net speed

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[breinersn]

sudo apt-get --purge remove node-gyp

[rajulverma]

I am also getting this msg..

npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...rma-phantomjs-launche'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2019-02-21T07_21_13_483Z-debug.log Package install failed, see above.

[rajulverma]

Try Below one--- npm set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/ npm cache clean --force npm cache verify npm install

babakhalid12 : It's working.. Thanks

[trieuquang204]

i also have problem too

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