npm ERR: peerinvalid The package generator-karma does not satisfy its siblings peerDependencies requirements

Question

When I run

 npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower

at my terminal I get the following dependency error:

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package generator-karma does not satisfy its siblings'
peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer generator-angular@0.5.0 wants generator-karma@~0.5.0
npm ERR! System Darwin 12.4.1
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "yo" "grunt-cli" "bower"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/ryanwieghard/code/angin/indie-cinema-tools
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.20
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11
npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/ryanwieghard/code/angin/indie-cinema-tools/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I am not sure how to resolve this. Is there a way to manually install generator-karma@~0.5.0 ?

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '13 at 19:51

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The new version of yeoman installs bower and grunt for you (so you don't need those on your npm line anymore). So, just to be safe remove what you have:

npm remove -g yo bower grunt-cli

And then try this install

npm install -g yo

Some people still experience the problem you're having though, here's the issue and in comments are a number of different things to try if the above doesn't resolve your issue: https://github.com/yeoman/generator-angular/issues/220

answered Oct 18 '13 at 19:51

KayakDave

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I've removed and reinstalled everything I can think of based on this thread, the one you've linked and many others. In cannot install generator-angular or generator-socketio OR generator-karma. Each reports this error that seems to always come back to generator-karma and I think it failing to install is the root of the issue but I don't have my brain wrapped around NPM enough to understand this any further. – rainabba Mar 05 '15 at 23:12

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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https://stackoverflow.com/a/24084524/3692197

This helped me.

I uninstalled all the dependent generators which are throwing error

npm uninstall -g generator-[generator-name]

Update Yo

npm update -g yo

Install the required generator

npm install -g generator-[generator-name]

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Sep 16 '14 at 14:54

ap_snitch

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Yeah, I did the accepted answer and then this and finally got a result. – Quickredfox Nov 17 '14 at 23:27

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 26 '13 at 22:22

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This one helped me:

npm uninstall -g generator-karma && npm install -g generator-angular

answered Nov 26 '13 at 22:22

Agnislav

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Doesn't work any more - generator-karma seems to be installed again and cause the problem – Dmitri Zaitsev Jan 15 '14 at 15:02

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 22 '14 at 20:50

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Before updating or re-installing yo, you must remove all generators (in my case generator-angular)

npm remove -g generator-angular

Then you can update yeoman

npm update -g yo

And smile :)

answered Sep 22 '14 at 20:50

Albestio

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 07 '15 at 16:08

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I had to do "sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/generator-karma" then npm update -g yo

answered May 07 '15 at 16:08

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npm ERR: peerinvalid The package generator-karma does not satisfy its siblings peerDependencies requirements

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