question about bower tutorial

Posted on November 26, 2013

When I try to run the command npm install -g bower from this Bower tutorail https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-use-bower-on-your-vps I get the errors you see below. Any ideas what the problem might be?

npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/unzip npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tmp npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/update-notifier npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/which npm ERR! Failed to parse json npm ERR! Unexpected end of input npm ERR! File: /home/michael/.npm/rimraf/2.2.2/package/package.json npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data. npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript. npm ERR! npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm. npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-19-generic npm ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” “install” “-g” “bower” npm ERR! cwd /home/michael npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14 npm ERR! file /home/michael/.npm/rimraf/2.2.2/package/package.json npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /home/michael/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0

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Kamal Nasser

November 26, 2013

Try clearing npm’s cache: <pre>mv /home/michael/.npm /home/michael/.npm.backup</pre> And then run <code>npm install -g bower</code> again, does that work? If not, what’s the output of <pre>node -v</pre>?