yeoman - 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 ?

Answer 1

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