Generator not installing (could be my mistake)

[caleb0199]

I'm using Ubuntu Mate 14.04, in case that is significant.
Following the instructions, I perform:
npm install -g generator-learnfe

After quite some time, I get this message:
npm WARN deprecated lodash@2.4.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^3.0.0.
/home/berickso/.nvm/versions/node/v5.1.0/lib
└── generator-learnfe@0.3.0

Yoeman doesn't consider the generator installed.
When I attempt to use the generator, I get this message:

yo learnfe
Error learnfe

You don't seem to have a generator with the name learnfe installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 0 registered generators run yo with the --help option.

**I tried updating my version of lodash using npm, and that succeeded, but running the above commands again subsequently has the same results.
Perhaps the generator specifies a deprecated version of lodash which prevents it installing?
Or (more likely) I'm simply doing something wrong.

Thanks very much for your time...sorry if this is just my misunderstanding.**

[ascott1]

I'm sorry that you're having trouble with this! I just tried running it on a clean machine using both Node 0.12 and Node 4.2 and it worked (though I did receive that lodash warning). Can you try entering the following line-by-line into your terminal and let me know if you have an error:

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-learnfe
mkdir my-new-project && cd $_
yo learnfe

I hope that re-running the steps works! If not, I'm happy to dig in further.

[caleb0199]

Running again had the same result.
However, I was using Node 5.1.0. Since it worked for you with 4.2, I tried installing and switching to that version (using nvm).

I then re-re-tried the steps.
For some reason, I needed to update npm (got an error message when re-installing yo).
After updating npm (and still using Node 4.2), the steps completed happily.

So. I'm not sure if it was an issue with the version of npm, or with node. Either way, it's working now, and I'm happily working on my mars bbq project.

Thanks so much for your patience and time!

(Not sure of protocol, so I'm not closing the issue, but I think it can be closed now. Please go ahead and do that if appropriate.)

[ascott1]

Excellent! I'm glad you were able to get it to work, but I apologize for the hoops you had to jump through! I'll keep the issue open in case anyone else has a similar issue and comes across this.

Please feel free to reach out with questions at any time.

[jdalton]

@ascott1

(though I did receive that lodash warning).

Lodash warning is just me using npm deprecate to nudge folks into upgrading lodash 😎

[ascott1]

Excellent. Thanks for the heads up @jdalton!