Trying to install modules from github results in:
ENOENT error on package.json.
Easily reproduced using express:
npm install https://github.com/visionmedia/express
throws error.
npm install express
works.
Why can't I install from github?
Here is the console output:
npm http GET https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
npm http 200 https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
npm ERR! not a package /home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/tmp.tgz
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/package/package.json'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR! <[email protected]>
npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-23-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git"
npm ERR! cwd /home/guym/dev_env/projects_GIT/proj/somename
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.10
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.25
npm ERR! path /home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/package/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/guym/dev_env/projects_GIT/proj/somename/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
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You could also do
npm i alex-cory/fasthacks
or
npm i github:alex-cory/fasthacks
Basically:
npm i user_or_org/repo_name
Install it directly:
npm install visionmedia/express
Alternatively, you can add "express": "github:visionmedia/express"
to the "dependencies"
section of package.json
file, then run:
npm install
The current top answer by Peter Lyons is not relevant with recent NPM versions. For example, using the same command that was criticized in this answer is now fine.
$ npm install https://github.com/visionmedia/express
If you have continued problems it might be a problem with whatever package you were using.
The general form of the syntax is
<protocol>://[<user>[:<password>]@]<hostname>[:<port>][:][/]<path>[#<commit-ish> | #semver:<semver>]
which means for your case it will be
npm install git+ssh://[email protected]/visionmedia/express.git
From npmjs docs:
npm install :
Installs the package from the hosted git provider, cloning it with git. For a full git remote url, only that URL will be attempted.
<protocol>://[<user>[:<password>]@]<hostname>[:<port>][:][/]<path>[#<commit-ish>
| #semver:] is one of git, git+ssh, git+http, git+https, or git+file.
If # is provided, it will be used to clone exactly that commit. If the commit-ish has the format #semver:, can be any valid semver range or exact version, and npm will look for any tags or refs matching that range in the remote repository, much as it would for a registry dependency. If neither # or
semver: is specified, then master is used.
If the repository makes use of submodules, those submodules will be cloned as well.
If the package being installed contains a prepare script, its dependencies and devDependencies will be installed, and the prepare script will be run, before the package is packaged and installed.
The following git environment variables are recognized by npm and will be added to the environment when running git:
- GIT_ASKPASS
- GIT_EXEC_PATH
- GIT_PROXY_COMMAND
- GIT_SSH
- GIT_SSH_COMMAND
- GIT_SSL_CAINFO GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
See the git man page for details.
Examples:
npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm.git#v1.0.27 npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm#semver:^5.0 npm install git+https://[email protected]/npm/npm.git npm install git://github.com/npm/npm.git#v1.0.27 GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -i ~/.ssh/custom_ident' npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:npm/npm.git npm install
You can directly install an github repo by npm install
command, like this:
npm install https://github.com/futurechallenger/npm_git_install.git --save
NOTE: In the repo which will be installed by npm command:
Try this command
npm install github:[Organisation]/[Repository]#[master/BranchName] -g
this command worked for me.
npm install github:BlessCSS/bless#3.x -g
There's also npm install https://github.com/{USER}/{REPO}/tarball/{BRANCH}
to use a different branch.
If git is not installed, we can try
npm install --save https://github.com/Amitesh/gulp-rev-all/tarball/master
Simple :
npm install *GithubUrl*.git --save
example :
npm install https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git --save
UPDATE now you can do: npm install git://github.com/foo/bar.git
or in package.json
:
"dependencies": {
"bar": "git://github.com/foo/bar.git"
}
The methods are covered pretty well now in npm's install documentation as well as the numerous other answers here.
npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:<githubname>/<githubrepo.git[#<commit-ish>]
npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:<githubname>/<githubrepo.git>[#semver:^x.x]
npm install git+https://[email protected]/<githubname>/<githubrepo.git>
npm install git://github.com/<githubname>/<githubrepo.git>
npm install github:<githubname>/<githubrepo>[#<commit-ish>]
However, something notable that has changed recently is npm adding the prepare
script to replace the prepublish
script. This fixes a longstanding problem where modules installed via git did not run the prepublish
script and thus did not complete the build steps that occur when a module is published to the npm registry. See https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3055.
Of course, the module authors will need to update their package.json to use the new prepare
directive for this to start working.
if you get something like this:
npm ERR! enoent undefined ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/some_repo/repo.git
Make sure you update to the latest npm and that you have permissions as well.
You can also do npm install visionmedia/express
to install from Github
or
npm install visionmedia/express#branch
There is also support for installing directly from a Gist, Bitbucket, Gitlab, and a number of other specialized formats. Look at the npm install
documentation for them all.
I tried npm install git+https://github.com/visionmedia/express
but that took way too long and I wasn't sure that would work.
What did work for me was - yarn add git+https://github.com/visionmedia/express
.
Update September 2016
Installing from vanilla https github URLs now works:
npm install https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/search-index.git
EDIT 1: You can't do this for all modules because you are reading from a source control system, which may well contain invalid/uncompiled/buggy code. So to be clear (although it should go without saying): given that the code in the repo is in an npm-usable state, you can now quite happily install directly from github
EDIT 2: (21-10-2019) We are now living through "peak Typescript/React/Babel", and therefore JavaScript compilation has become quite common. If you need to take compilation into account look into prepare
. That said, NPM modules do not need to be compiled, and it is wise to assume that compilation is not the default, especially for older node modules (and possibly also for very new, bleeding-edge "ESNext"-y ones).
Source: Stackoverflow.com