Truffle: unable to install Truffle Webpack

Created on 24 Jun 2017 · 8Comments · Source: trufflesuite/truffle

Issue

Not sure how actively Truffle Webpack starter is being maintained, but as it is referenced in the Truffle docs (and there is no issues tab available in the truffle-init-webpack repo) I thought I would post this here. I'm unable to successfully install or truffle compile the Webpack version of Truffle.

Steps to Reproduce

truffle init webpack

Actual Results

Downloading project... Installing dependencies... Error: Command failed: npm install babel-cli@^6.22.2 babel-core@^6.22.1 babel-eslint@^6.1.2 babel-loader@^6.2.10 babel-plugin-transform-runtime@^6.22.0 babel-preset-env@^1.1.8 babel-preset-es2015@^6.22.0 babel-register@^6.22.0 copy-webpack-plugin@^4.0.1 css-loader@^0.26.1 eslint@^3.14.0 eslint-config-standard@^6.0.0 eslint-plugin-babel@^4.0.0 eslint-plugin-mocha@^4.8.0 eslint-plugin-promise@^3.0.0 eslint-plugin-standard@^2.0.0 html-webpack-plugin@^2.28.0 json-loader@^0.5.4 style-loader@^0.13.1 truffle-contract@^1.1.6 web3@^0.18.2 webpack@^2.2.1 webpack-dev-server@^2.3.0

Note, installing Babel globally is specifically not encouraged in the Babel docs.

There also seems to no longer be a git file/repo for bignumber.js. I get this bignumber error also when trying to install truffle-default-builder.

npm ERR! git fetch -a origin (https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js.git) remote: Repository not found. npm ERR! git fetch -a origin (https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js.git) fatal: repository 'https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js.git/' not found

Environment

Truffle 3.2.8
Darwin 16.6.0
node v6.11.0
npm v3.10.10

Source

FugueWeb

Most helpful comment

I can install with npm install -g truffle@beta but yet truffle init webpack fails with same issue

tsouza on 24 Jun 2017

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All 8 comments

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17413
https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/issues/904

The bignumber problem seems to be related to a few other issues

FugueWeb on 24 Jun 2017

I am having the same problem. Prompted with GitHub login, and https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js cannot be found.

kahwooi on 24 Jun 2017

As a workaround, move to beta:
npm install -g truffle@beta

beaini on 24 Jun 2017

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@beaini yes, I am using truffle@beta

kahwooi on 24 Jun 2017

I can install with npm install -g truffle@beta but yet truffle init webpack fails with same issue

tsouza on 24 Jun 2017

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The same problem here. Installed truffle@beta, didn't help. testrpc doesn't install as well, but testrpc@beta worked well. How long do we need to wait for the fix?

porfavorite on 24 Jun 2017

I was able to get mine installed locally.

Here are the changes I made to fix all the broken dependencies, in the order they need to be applied:

I used npm link to hook up the dependency fixes locally and was able to successfully install the patched version of truffle 3.2.5 from https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle/pull/460. But I ran into a bug in npm (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10343) which blocked me from fully testing the fix.