Unable to npm install my package

问题:

I've been trying to install a package that I have defined the package.json for. The package.json file is very simple.

{
  "name": "project",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "devDependencies": {
    "karma-jasmine": "0.2.2"
  }
}

Now when I issue a

npm install .

I get the following error.

npm WARN package.json package.json@0.0.0 No repository field.
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /Users/username/projects/project
npm ERR! Darwin 14.0.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "."
npm ERR! node v0.10.32
npm ERR! npm  v2.1.5
npm ERR! code EISDIR
npm ERR! errno 28

npm ERR! EISDIR, read
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/username/projects/project/npm-debug.log

Unable to understand what am I doing wrong.

回答1:

After spending a lot of time on this I finally figured out the cause. I didn't have a package.json file but I had it misspelt as packages.json file.

NPM wasn't able to pick up the file from the current directory and then it tried my home directory and then showed the unhelpful error. I hope this will help somebody save some time.

回答2:

Top Tip - once you have created your new project's github repository and cloned it locally, issue the command :

npm init    

which will prompt you for particulars and auto synthesize a file

package.json

for you

UPDATE : I see its been fixed ... my current version has a much better error message :

npm install
npm WARN ENOENT ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/scott/aaa/package.json'


node --version
v5.4.1

npm --version
3.3.12