Installing Polymer through bower freezes

bower, polymer, ubuntu, ubuntu-14.04

Solution

There's a cyclical issue with Bower that's been fixed on master but hasn't made it to a release yet. https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/1169

Problem

I follow the instructions of the official page to install bower, but when I reach to the command line: ``` bower install --save Polymer/core-elements ``` bower get stuck and outputs nothing for a long while, in the end I get a "out of memory" error. What is wrong? I am using Ubuntu 14.04

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