Problem installing from a github repo

[ChrisCinelli]

In the README you have:

 If you need to install an npm module from a specific commit, use the syntax:

 {
   "googleapis": "https://github.com/bradvogel/google-api-nodejs-client/archive/d945dabf416d58177b0c14da64e0d6038f0cc47b.tar.gz"
 }

But when I use:

   {
      "seneca": "https://github.com/brycereynolds/seneca/archive/6e9de08b1cf1a954a07353019ddf9e7c054f9282.tar.gz"
   }

I get:

    => Started proxy.
    => Started MongoDB.
    npm-container: updating npm dependencies -- seneca...
    npm ERR! not a package
    /var/folders/x2/tj1zhbcd6_16j5hyj87q696m0000gn/T/npm-14561-f7kQwOsM/github.com/brycereynolds/seneca-mem-store.git
    npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open
    '/var/folders/x2/tj1zhbcd6_16j5hyj87q696m0000gn/T/npm-14561-f7kQwOsM/github.com/brycereynolds/seneca-mem-store.git-unpack/package.json'
    npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log,
    npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
    npm ERR!     <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

    npm ERR! System Darwin 13.4.0
    npm ERR! command
    "/Users/cc/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.4.wsrqju++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/bin/node"
    "/Users/cc/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.4.wsrqju++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/bin/npm"
    "install"
    "https://github.com/brycereynolds/seneca/archive/6e9de08b1cf1a954a07353019ddf9e7c054f9282.tar.gz"
    npm ERR! cwd
    /Users/cc/myapp/packages/npm-container/.npm/package-new-gkzq92
    npm ERR! node -v v0.10.36
    npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
    npm ERR! path
    /var/folders/x2/tj1zhbcd6_16j5hyj87q696m0000gn/T/npm-14561-f7kQwOsM/github.com/brycereynolds/seneca-mem-store.git-unpack/package.json
    npm ERR! code ENOENT
    npm ERR! errno 34
    npm ERR! not ok code 0

    => Errors prevented startup:

       While building package npm-container:
       error: couldn't install npm package

    => Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.

[letmaik]

I have the same problem on Travis CI, but I'm not sure where the github dependency gets pulled in: https://travis-ci.org/Reading-eScience-Centre/covjson-reader/builds/80837100

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed this is not the official npm repository. But maybe we see some connections. I'm not using meteor.

[letmaik]

Problem solved, I just used a newer node/npm version (0.12 or 4).

[ilyaigpetrov]

Packages from commits are different from those published on npm. In my case package from commit was not build and thus not ready to be required.

[magicalcows]

I'm having a similar problem, though I'm getting a must declare exact version of dependency error, not sure what I'm doing wrong:

My packages.json file:

{
  "externalify": "0.1.0",
  "material-ui": "0.13.4",
  "formsy-react": "0.17.0",
  "formsy-material-ui": "https://github.com/magicalcows/formsy-material-ui/archive/8bc6827d59efb88b7640e05b1686ae760e79650.tar.gz",
  "babelify": "7.2.0"
}

The output:

D:\projects\formsy-mui-demo>meteor
[[[[[ ~\D\projects\formsy-mui-demo ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Errors prevented startup:

   While reading package from `/D/projects/formsy-mui-demo/packages/npm-container`:
   package.js:14:7: must declare exact version of dependency:
   formsy-material-ui@https://github.com/magicalcows/formsy-material-ui/archive/8bc6827d59efb88b7640e05b1686ae760e79650.tar.gz

=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.
=> Started MongoDB.

FWIW when I try to create the release based on the commit using the full commit hash, I get a 500 error from github. I had to take one character off the end of the hash to get it to work, if that matters.

From my versions file in .meteor:

meteorhacks:npm@1.5.0