Gatsby: can't install blog starter project

Created on 24 Aug 2017 · 19Comments · Source: gatsbyjs/gatsby

Hi, I'm new Gatsby, trying get it setup so i can rebuild my portfolio site. I'm going through the Getting Started steps. I installed the CLI no problem but then when I run gatsby new gatsby-site I am getting a bunch of errors.
UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY react@>=15.0.0 and several errors saying [email protected] requires peers that were not installed. I am on OSX and have the latest version of Node.

I added react to my dependencies but still no luck running gatsby develop Thanks, let me know if i can provide more information

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AntonEmery

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What happens when you run gatsby develop?

KyleAMathews on 24 Aug 2017

There was a problem loading the local develop command. Gatsby may not be installed.
Error: Cannot find module 'gatsby/dist/commands/develop'

AntonEmery on 24 Aug 2017

Can you try updating to the latest version of gatsby-cli and try creating a new site?

KyleAMathews on 24 Aug 2017

Sure thing. I updated the gatsby-cli and ran gatsby new gatsby-site This is what I got.

├── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY react@>=15.0.0
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│ ├── [email protected]
│ ├── [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│ ├── [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of babel-eslint@^6.1.2 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of eslint@^3.0.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of eslint-plugin-babel@^3.3.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of eslint-plugin-flowtype@^2.15.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of eslint-plugin-react@^5.2.2 but none was installed.
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

npm ERR! Darwin 14.5.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.4.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v8.4.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.3
npm ERR! path /Users/anton/Web Dev/Gatsby/gatsby-site/node_modules/gatsby/bin/gatsby.js
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall chmod

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/Users/anton/Web Dev/Gatsby/gatsby-site/node_modules/gatsby/bin/gatsby.js'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/Users/anton/Web Dev/Gatsby/gatsby-site/node_modules/gatsby/bin/gatsby.js'

Thanks!

AntonEmery on 24 Aug 2017

Need to update the local gatsby as well, maybe we should have had a fallback for the older locations

jquense on 24 Aug 2017

👍1

I reverted the CLI changes for now so this issue should be fixed https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/1903

KyleAMathews on 24 Aug 2017

Hi guys,

This whole gatsby project is so cool! I´ve been avay from coding since LAMP stack days, but this whole javascript movement makes me want to get back into coding again. I would love to meet Kyle and see if I can help. Then a small bug probably or something with my setup:

I tried installing gatsby on my MAC OS Sierra, v10.12
I do get the standard install & gatsby new "my-name-of-test-site" to work,
and the gatsby develop command works inside of that testsite. So all good.
But when I try to test the "gatsby new my-project https://github.com/saschajullmann/gatsby-starter-gatsbythemes" the gatsby develop command inside the "my-project" directory give this output: "error There was a problem loading the local develop command. Gatsby may not be installed."

smaurstad on 24 Oct 2017

Do other starters fail in similar ways?

KyleAMathews on 25 Oct 2017

Hello @KyleAMathews, same for me here:

$ gatsby new test_gatsby https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-hello-world
[lots of things here]
$ du -Pshx test_gatsby/
381M
$ cd test_gatsby/
$ gatsby develop
/usr/local/bin/gatsby develop

Options:
  -h, --help     Affiche de l'aide                                                                                                                   [booléen]
  --verbose      Turn on verbose output                                                                                              [booléen] [défaut: false]
  -H, --host     Set host. Defaults to 0.0.0.0                                                                       [chaine de caractère] [défaut: "0.0.0.0"]
  -p, --port     Set port. Defaults to 8000                                                                             [chaine de caractère] [défaut: "8000"]
  -o, --open     Open the site in your browser for you.                                                                                              [booléen]
  -v, --version  Affiche le numéro de version                                                                                                        [booléen]

error There was a problem loading the local develop command. Gatsby may not be installed.


  Error: Cannot find module 'address'

  - module.js:20 require
    internal/module.js:20:19

  - develop.js:223 Object.<anonymous>
    [test_gatsby]/[gatsby]/dist/commands/develop.js:223:15

  - module.js:20 require
    internal/module.js:20:19

  - create-cli.js:53 resolveLocalCommand
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/lib/create-cli.js:53:14

  - create-cli.js:70 Object.handler
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/lib/create-cli.js:70:22

  - command.js:233 Object.self.runCommand
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/[yargs]/lib/command.js:233:22

  - yargs.js:990 Object.Yargs.self._parseArgs
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/[yargs]/yargs.js:990:30

  - yargs.js:532 Object.Yargs.self.parse
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/[yargs]/yargs.js:532:23

  - create-cli.js:180 module.exports
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/lib/create-cli.js:180:154

  - index.js:121 Object.<anonymous>
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/lib/index.js:121:1

lebarde on 25 Nov 2017

Could you try upgrading gatsby-cli to the latest?

KyleAMathews on 28 Nov 2017

👍1

It works for me upon upgrading!

gbailey4 on 28 Nov 2017

worked for me ! before , I didn't get any error message, but the localhost sever didn't work.

➜  app npm update gatsby-cli 
➜  app gatsby develop

amouratoglou on 11 Jan 2018

All this can be solved........... By two simple steps actually three:
1.) Open GIT BASH
2.) Type the command: _gatsby new gatsby-site https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-xxxxxx_
3.) And from your TERMINAL type _gatsby develop_

abhinavjonnada82 on 31 Mar 2018

😄1

Same problem here
$ gatsby develop
error There was a problem loading the local develop command. Gatsby may not be installed. Perhaps you need to run "npm install"?

any ideas?

Latest gatsby-cli installed (actually tried it three times I think), still no luck.

boryskuczkowski on 19 Apr 2018

I have the same problem as well, tried reinstall a couple of times without any luck.

webbson on 19 Apr 2018

Even though the gatsby-cli was installed globally (the command gatsby was also available globally and gave me some options), I ran into the very same issue:
error There was a problem loading the local develop command. Gatsby may not be installed. Perhaps you need to run "npm install"?

So here is what I did to resolve it:

npm uninstall gatsby-cli
npm install --global gatsby-cli
gatsby new gatsby-site
gatsby develop

🎉

dsteinel on 23 Apr 2018

For me the only solution that worked was to install it via yarn instead of npm.

webbson on 23 Apr 2018

yes Yarn seems to help!

yodacom on 10 May 2018

I had the same problem and spotted this when running npm install --global gatsby-cli for the second time (after following @dsteinel's comments):

error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=7.6.0". error Found incompatible module info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command. error Command failed: yarnpkg

After upgrading node to 7.6.0, gatsby develop worked for me