generator-karma does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements

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The same notorious error

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package generator-karma does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer generator-angular@0.7.1 wants generator-karma@~0.6.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer generator-angular-ui-router@0.5.3 wants generator-karma@~0.5.0

npm ERR! System Darwin 12.5.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "generator-angular"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/dmitrizaitsev/Dropbox/Priv/APP/my-yo-project
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID

comes from installation various packages, e.g. for

npm update -g yo

The only found advice to uninstall generator-karma does not help - it re-installs back.

Any better explanation of why it happens and working solution?

Just making it clear, you did try `sudo npm update -g generator-karma` correct? You may also try looking at `/node_modules/generator-karma/package.json`, and view the version to see if it's above equal or above 0.6.0. — matth, Jan 15 '14 at 16:53
Yes, I tried that too. I was able to get rid of that error by uninstalling `generator-angular-ui-router`, which seems to use older version of `generator-karma`. Kind of annoying there is no better way. — Dmitri Zaitsev, Jan 15 '14 at 17:29

score 47 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '14 at 14:07

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Try running npm uninstall -g generator-karma

answered Feb 18 '14 at 14:07

tmaximini

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Any explanation what exactly happens here? – Dmitri Zaitsev Feb 18 '14 at 18:34
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not really sorry, I just had this generator somehow installed globally and uninstalling it fixed it. I reckon there have been a lot of changes during different versions of karma. – tmaximini Feb 20 '14 at 13:51
Good call. I ran into this when trying to install webpack and this solution satisfies it as well. – chaseadamsio Mar 07 '14 at 04:19
This worked for me. Thanks! I then re-installed karma afterwards and everything was happy. – f1lt3r Oct 30 '15 at 14:18

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '14 at 03:18

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You need to update all of your globally installed NPM packages. Run this command from your console:

npm update -g

This command will update all the packages listed to the latest version (specified by the tag config).

It will also install missing packages.

When you specify the -g flag, this command will update globally installed packages. If no package name is specified, all packages in the specified location (global or local) will be updated.

answered Jun 05 '14 at 03:18

Brad Richardson

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Just running this fixed the problem for me – LifeOnLars Jun 11 '14 at 13:25
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This command totally screwed npm for me. It came back with lot of error and now I have this : -bash: /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory. Think twice before running this – 0x1gene May 11 '15 at 10:06
@0x1gene `npm` has destructive behavior of deleting itself sometimes upon failure. You can simply restore it by re-installing node. Annoying but works. – Dmitri Zaitsev May 28 '15 at 16:10
`Cannot find module '/Users/username/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/build.js'` – f1lt3r Oct 30 '15 at 14:15

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '14 at 06:10

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I had a similar issue and I did this in terminal:

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/karma-*

and then updated the package.json:

  "devDependencies": {
    "karma": "0.12.0",
    ...
  }

then reinstall

sudo npm install karma

It worked for me

answered Mar 13 '14 at 06:10

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You should **never** `sudo npm` -- see http://stackoverflow.com/a/29787667/1614973 – Dmitri Zaitsev Apr 25 '15 at 09:35

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 22:51

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It fixed it by running this command, which installs the latest version from GitHub:

$ npm install -g git://github.com/iamblue/generator-angular-ui-router.git

answered Feb 12 '14 at 22:51

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I had tried all the others - for Windows your solution was the only one that worked – brianlmerritt Nov 15 '15 at 09:13

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 28 '16 at 12:45

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i was able to install simply by:

npm install karma-generator

Guess it installs a later version of Karma. I was able to successfully install generator-angular after that. Was able to get coffeescript going as well after doing the above.

edited Jan 28 '16 at 12:45

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answered Jan 16 '14 at 05:06

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 19 '15 at 18:14

I had permissions issues with some of the directories under /usr/local/lib/node_modules. I must have installed some packages with sudo but most under my own user id. I solved this issue on a Mac with these commands:

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib/node_modules/
sudo chgrp -R admin /usr/local/lib/node_modules/

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