I cannot install grunt-contrib-imagemin on my Windows 8.1 machine.
I have Node version 0.10.33. I have npm version 1.4.28. They are both fresh installations.
I was following this tutorial to setup Grunt to manage SASS, JS and images in a Laravel project.
I installed grunt-contrib-sass, grunt-contrib-uglify fine and then proceeded to try and install grunt-contrib-imagemin using the following command as found on the offical GitHub page:
npm install grunt-contrib-imagemin --save-dev
It gives me a weird warning to begin with:
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.0","npm":">=2.1.5"} (current: {"node":"0.10.33","npm":"1.4.28"})
So I thought maybe my npm is out of date so I uninstalled and reinstalled numerous times.
Then I decided to leave it to see if it works anyway regardless of the error and then this happens:
npm WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.0","npm":">=2.1.5"} (current: {"node":"0.10.33","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
npm ERR! EEXIST, open 'C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\f0f75a32-m-cache-lodash-2-4-1-package-tgz.lock'
File exists: C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\f0f75a32-m-cache-lodash-2-4-1-package-tgz.lock
Move it away, and try again.
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "instal
l"
npm ERR! cwd C:\xampp\htdocs\rent1
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! path C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\f0f75a32-m-cache-lodash-2-4-1-package-tgz.lock
npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! errno 47
npm ERR! not ok code 0
I have no idea why I can't install it. I tried it on my Windows 7 machine at work and it worked fine with the same Node and NPM installs.
Upgrade npm to latest.
Lots of bugs fixed there.
It's different on different machines because of race conditions. Speed makes a difference.