install gulp browserify gives error always

gulp, linux, node.js, npm

Solution

Which version of node are you running? The kind of error that you are having normally show up when you are trying to install newer modules on an older version of node.

1 - `rm -rf node_modules`

2 - update node to the latest version

  2.1 - sudo npm cache clean -f
  2.2 - sudo npm install -g n
  2.3 - sudo n stable

3 - try to install gulp-browsify again

Problem

Im trying to install gulp-browserify with this command: ``` npm install gulp-browserify --save-dev ``` I already installed many other packages successfully like ``` gulp-autoprefixer gulp-concat gulp-minify-css gulp-sass gulp-uglify ``` all of those installations worked great, here is how my package.json file looks like ``` { "devDependencies": { "gulp-autoprefixer": "0.0.8", "gulp-sass": "~0.7.2", "gulp": "~3.8.5", "gulp-minify-css": "~0.3.6", "gulp-concat": "~2.2.0", "gulp-uglify": "~0.3.1" } } ``` and here is the errors I get when installing browserify ``` http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-to-browserify npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/inline-source-map npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/inline-source-map/-/inline-source-map-0.3.0.tgz npm ERR! Error: invalid version: 3001.0001.0000-dev-harmony-fb npm ERR! at validVersion (/usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:573:40) npm ERR! at final (/usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:323:23) npm ERR! at /usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:139:33 npm ERR! at cb (/usr/lib/nodejs/slide/lib/async-map.js:48:11) npm ERR! at /usr/lib/nodejs/read-package-json/read-json.js:251:40 npm ERR! at fs.js:268:14 npm ERR! at /usr/lib/nodejs/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:103:5 npm ERR! at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15) npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at: npm ERR! <http://bugs.debian.org/npm> npm ERR! or use npm ERR! reportbug --attach /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters/npm-debug.log npm npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-24-generic npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "gulp-browserify" "--save-dev" npm ERR! cwd /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15 npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.18 npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/escodegen npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/escodegen/-/escodegen-1.1.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/callsite npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/callsite/-/callsite-1.0.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/resolve/-/resolve-0.3.1.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/astw npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/astw/-/astw-1.1.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-2.2.5.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/convert-source-map/-/convert-source-map-0.3.4.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/source-map npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/source-map/-/source-map-0.1.34.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/source-map npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-to-browserify npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-to-browserify/-/uglify-to-browserify-1.0.2.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/async npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/async/-/async-0.2.10.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/optimist npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/optimist/-/optimist-0.3.7.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/inline-source-map/-/inline-source-map-0.3.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/escodegen/-/escodegen-1.1.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/callsite/-/callsite-1.0.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/astw/-/astw-1.1.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/source-map/-/source-map-0.1.34.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-to-browserify/-/uglify-to-browserify-1.0.2.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/async/-/async-0.2.10.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/optimist/-/optimist-0.3.7.tgz npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/esprima-fb/-/esprima-fb-3001.0001.0000-dev-harmony-fb.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/esprima-fb/-/esprima-fb-3001.0001.0000-dev-harmony-fb.tgz npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/amdefine npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap/-/wordwrap-0.0.2.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/amdefine npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/amdefine/-/amdefine-0.1.0.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/wordwrap/-/wordwrap-0.0.2.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/amdefine/-/amdefine-0.1.0.tgz npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, lstat '/media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters/node_modules/gulp-browserify/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/umd/node_modules/ruglify/node_modules/uglify-js/node_modules/source-map/node_modules/amdefine/amdefine.js' npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at: npm ERR! <http://bugs.debian.org/npm> npm ERR! or use npm ERR! reportbug --attach /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters/npm-debug.log npm npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-24-generic npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "gulp-browserify" "--save-dev" npm ERR! cwd /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15 npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.18 npm ERR! path /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters/node_modules/gulp-browserify/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/umd/node_modules/ruglify/node_modules/uglify-js/node_modules/source-map/node_modules/amdefine/amdefine.js npm ERR! fstream_path /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters/node_modules/gulp-browserify/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/umd/node_modules/ruglify/node_modules/uglify-js/node_modules/source-map/node_modules/amdefine/amdefine.js npm ERR! fstream_type File npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno 34 npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/lib/nodejs/fstream/lib/writer.js:284:26 npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15) npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /media/tzookb/dynamic/www/meeters/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 ```

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