Error: Cannot find where you keep your Bower packages. Use --force to continue

Question

I'm building an App using MEAN Stack and trying to scaffold my frontend using yeoman-generator, when I do yo angular it fails to build and ends up in the following

  Running "wiredep:app" (wiredep) task
  Warning: Error: Cannot find where you keep your Bower packages. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

I'm stuck with this warning. I found a similar question here , but that solution didn't helped me.

Anyhelp will be greatly appreciated.

duplicate of [Grunt wiredep:app Cannot find Bower packages](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26182287/grunt-wiredepapp-cannot-find-bower-packages) — brandonscript, Jul 23 '15 at 05:37
I get this error if my bower_components folder doesn't exist, It can be a permission issue. Try deleting your node_modules,bower_components and do npm install & bower install.. Try them without sudo. if you have .bowerrc file it will specify where to keep bower components — Sreevisakh, Aug 01 '15 at 05:46

score 19 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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I got the same error on

grunt serve.

It was solved when i tried

npm install --global yo bower grunt-cli 

npm install -g generator-angular

yo angular

grunt serve

if you get an error:-

Running "wiredep:app" (wiredep) task

Warning: Error: angular is not installed

. Try running bower install

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 22 '15 at 07:02

varna

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It has worked for me, thanks! (didn't have to run yo angular) – Carlos Zinato Aug 03 '20 at 15:50

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '19 at 07:32

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Just run bower install and your code will run.

answered Feb 06 '19 at 07:32

Aman Jain

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '16 at 09:44

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For me it seemed to be link with the rights.
I had to manually create the bower_components folder:

mkdir -m 777 client/bower_components

and run

bower install

answered Aug 17 '16 at 09:44

Julien Malige

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 07 '16 at 14:46

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Put .bowerrc file inside of bower.json file directory.

It must be contain :

{
    "directory": "client/bower_components"
}

It may be your problem.

answered Mar 07 '16 at 14:46

Vahid Moradi

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This was my problem, I had set the directory as "bower_components" but it should have been "public/bower_components". I mistakenly thought it was assuming the path to be relative from public but it's relative to the location of your bowerrc. – Eric Soyke Jul 22 '16 at 19:37

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 02 '17 at 06:27

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The Node version seems to be outdated and both the npm and nodejs is not installed globally:

To install globally run the following:

npm install --global yo bower grunt-cli 
npm install -g generator-angular

And start again, it will work for sure.

edited Mar 02 '17 at 06:27

dubs

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answered Mar 02 '17 at 05:45

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 20 '17 at 19:26

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I just got the error.

The solution for me was to add the bower_components folder on the root folder even if I did not have bower dependencies yet.

answered Nov 20 '17 at 19:26

C0ZEN

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 17 '21 at 14:56

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For my AngularJS project I had to run this:

npm install
npm run bower

After that my project ran successfully

answered Aug 17 '21 at 14:56

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Error: Cannot find where you keep your Bower packages. Use --force to continue

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