Webpack-cli: Cannot install webpack-cli using npm

[trignolo]

I'm trying to install webpack-cli with npm, but I'm getting error code 128.

Thanks in advance

[evenstensberg]

Hi! Could you post a stacktrace for us? I.E print a screenshot of your terminal?

[trignolo]

Sure, here it is:

sudo npm install -g webpack-cli
Password:
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
npm ERR! github.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Operation timed out
npm ERR! github.com[1: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Operation timed out
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/.../.npm/_logs/2017-09-01T14_53_03_375Z-debug.log

[evenstensberg]

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35021692/npm-install-error-code-128
• https://docs.npmjs.com/troubleshooting/try-clearing-the-npm-cache

[ematipico]

Are you behind a proxy? It looks like it's related to the cli but to a connection error to github

[trignolo]

I've also realized that is a connection problem looking at the logs, but I've never experienced a problem like this in the recent past with other tools.

My first googlings take on this issue:

https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/165

that seems to be the exact problem that I have now.

So I think that it's not very likely that is a proxy problem. But I'm investigating yet with infos from ev1stensberg.

[trignolo]

A little update: I attach a clean log of the exceution of the command. What I see is that the connection time out is related to this repo:

/usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/kalcifer/recast.git

2017-09-01T15_20_12_242Z-debug.log.txt

[evenstensberg]

@trignolo Recast & Yeoman are local forks, so that makes sense. Planning to remove those after we've migrated into webpack-addons

[RobotnickIsrael]

Any updates on this issue?
I want to use the cli to migrate my project from webpack 1.X to 2.X (and later 3\4).
When do you thing the migration to webpack-addons will finish?
Will it affect the migration tool?

Thanks

[wojtekmaj]

I get similar error:

> npm install webpack-cli@latest
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
npm ERR! github.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=No such file or directory
npm ERR! github.com[1: 192.30.253.113]: errno=No such file or directory
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

[internetErik]

I also get the same 'error' as above. I think it may have to do with some kind of local network settings.

If I try running these commands:

git ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git

git ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git

The second command works, while the first doesn't. So the issue (at least for me) seems connected to the use of the git protocol.

[evenstensberg]

It's the fork that won't let you download through a secure network. Planning to fix this soon, promise. Alternative is to download the generator manually and link it to a cloned version of the cli if you really need to use it

[erikchristianson]

@ev1stensberg Thanks

[dchhetri]

:+1: Waiting on the fix here as well. Best.

[tgandrews]

Is the switch to use https instead of git protocol an option? At the moment we cannot install this as we are behind a proxy. The workaround of cloning and linking seems unnecessary if a protocol fix is quick and works.

[ematipico]

Just made a PR as temporary fix :)

[evenstensberg]

Awesome sauce 🎉🎉

[erikchristianson]

Any chance a new version of webpack-cli, with the recent merge, could be published on npm?

[evenstensberg]

I'll have a chat with the team this week. We need to merge some long standing PRs like adding test cases from webpack and another minor one

[erikchristianson]

@ev1stensberg Any word on when a new version can be published to npm? Very inconvenient not being able to run npm install on certain projects while in the office.

[evenstensberg]

yarn add webpack-cli 2.0.5 out now

[TomFoyster]

I'm still unable to npm install webpack-cli? Is this meant to have been fixed?

[dhruvdutt]

@TomFoyster Most likely it could be because of #161. There's currently an issue with installation when we're behind a proxy.

[TomFoyster]

@dhruvdutt Correct, I found that weirdly if I connected to our VPN I was able to download it without issue!