bower installing other packages downgrades chart.js to 1.1.1

[curiousdevguy]

Each time I want to install a package using bower, the chart.js packages also gets updated and degrades itself to version 1.1.1 and all of the files inside the chart.js directory gets deleted except

.bower.json 
bower.json 
Chart.js

whereas I need the other files, css files in particular.

Here is the example of what i do on my terminal:

C:\Users\Martin\Work\MyApp>bower install --save angular-chart.js
bower cached        https://github.com/jtblin/angular-chart.js.git#1.1.1
bower validate      1.1.1 against https://github.com/jtblin/angular-chart.js.git#*
bower cached        https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js.git#2.5.0
bower validate      2.5.0 against https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js.git#^2.5.0
bower cached        https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js.git#2.5.0
bower validate      2.5.0 against https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js.git#2.x
bower install       chart.js#2.5.0

chart.js#2.5.0 bower_components\chart.js

C:\Users\Martin\Work\MyApp>bower install --save datatables.net
bower cached        https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js.git#1.1.1
bower validate      1.1.1 against https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js.git#^1.0.0-beta
bower cached        https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables.git#1.10.15
bower validate      1.10.15 against https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables.git#*
bower cached        https://github.com/jtblin/angular-chart.js.git#1.1.1
bower validate      1.1.1 against https://github.com/jtblin/angular-chart.js.git#^1.1.0
bower cached        https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables.git#1.10.15
bower validate      1.10.15 against https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables.git#>=1.10.
9
bower install       angular-chart.js#1.1.1
bower install       Chart.js#1.1.1

angular-chart.js#1.1.1 bower_components\angular-chart.js
├── angular#1.5.10
└── chart.js#2.5.0

Chart.js#1.1.1 bower_components\Chart.js

for example, I installed angular-chart.js and automatically it updated and installed chart.js to version 2.5, which is fine. But later when I install another package like datatables.net, as you see, the chart.js gets downgraded to version 1.1

here is my bower.json file:

  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "~2.1.3",
    "fastclick": "~1.0.6",
    "angular": "~1.5.7",
    "angular-animate": "~1.5.7",
    "angular-cookies": "~1.5.7",
    "angular-resource": "~1.5.7",
    "angular-sanitize": "~1.5.7",
    "angular-touch": "~1.5.7",
    "angular-ui-router": "~0.2.15",
    "ngstorage": "~0.3.10",
    "angular-translate": "~2.7.2",
    "angular-translate-loader-url": "~2.7.2",
    "angular-translate-loader-static-files": "~2.7.2",
    "angular-translate-storage-cookie": "~2.7.2",
    "angular-translate-storage-local": "~2.7.2",
    "oclazyload": "~0.6.3",
    "angular-breadcrumb": "~0.4.1",
    "angular-bootstrap": "~1.3.3",
    "angular-loading-bar": "~0.7.1",
    "angular-scroll": "~0.6.5",
    "angular-moment": "~1.0.0",
    "AngularJS-Toaster": "~0.4.10",
    "angular-bootstrap-nav-tree": "*",
    "angular-ladda": "~0.3.1",
    "ng-table": "~0.8.3",
    "angular-ui-select": "~0.18.0",
    "angular-ui-utils": "mask-0.2.2",
    "ngImgCrop": "~0.3.2",
    "angular-file-upload": "~1.1.5",
    "angular-aside": "~1.3.0",
    "angular-truncate": "*",
    "angular-sweetalert-promised": "~1.0.4",
    "angular-elastic": "~2.4.2",
    "tc-angular-chartjs": "~1.0.9",
    "angular-ui-switch": "~0.1.1",
    "angular-ckeditor": "~1.0.3",
    "angular-bootstrap-calendar": "~0.18.2",
    "angular-xeditable": "~0.1.9",
    "checklist-model": "~0.2.4",
    "ng-nestable": "~0.0.1",
    "ng-flow": "~2.7.1",
    "v-accordion": "~1.2.7",
    "angular-notification-icons": "~0.4.2",
    "angular-spectrum-colorpicker": "~1.4.1",
    "components-modernizr": "~2.8.3",
    "moment": "~2.8.4",
    "perfect-scrollbar": "0.6.1",
    "ladda": "~0.9.8",
    "sweetalert": "~0.4.2",
    "jquery.sparkline.build": "~2.1.3",
    "ckeditor": "~4.5.6",
    "nestable": "*",
    "spin.js": "~2.0.2",
    "bootstrap-touchspin": "~3.0.1",
    "select2": "~4.0.0",
    "select2-bootstrap-css": "~1.4.6",
    "selectize": "~0.12.0",
    "animate.css": "~3.2.0",
    "font-awesome": "^4.7.0",
    "themify-icons": "0.1.1",
    "bootstrap": "~3.3.2",
    "bootstrap-rtl": "~3.3.1",
    "toastr": "^2.1.3",
    "angular-strap": "^2.3.9",
    "ng-tags-input": "^3.1.1",
    "angulartics-google-analytics": "^0.3.0",
    "angulartics": "^1.3.0",
    "file-saver": "^1.3.3",
    "chart.js": "^2.5.0",
    "angular-chart.js": "^1.1.0",
    "angular-datatables": "^2.1.0",
    "cryptojslib": "^3.1.2",
    "datatables.net-colreorder": "^1.3.2",
    "jspdf": "^1.3.2",
    "pivottable": "^2.3.0",
    "c3": "^0.4.11",
    "d3": "^4.4.0",
    "jquery-ui": "^1.12.1",
    "js-cookie": "^2.1.3",
    "angular-modal-service": "^0.10.1",
    "angularjs-slider": "^5.9.0",
    "seiyria-bootstrap-slider": "^9.5.4",
    "html2canvas": "^0.4.1",
    "angular-recaptcha": "^4.0.1",
    "js-base64": "^2.1.9",
    "datatables.net": "^1.10.15"
  },
  "ignoredDependencies": [
    "chart.js"
  ],
  "devDependencies": {}
}

i tried to put chart.js in the ignored dependencies list, but no good.

Please help me understand why this is happening, and help me solve this. thanks a lot.

[etimberg]

Does this happen for any package installed after angular-chartjs? Is this some kind of dependency conflict? I think it might be better to ask this to the folks at bower since I don't think this is a Chart.js issue

[etimberg]

Closing as out of date