angular2 quickstart npm install fails

Question

I get the following error when I try to run- npm install. error as below:

npm ERR! node v0.12.12
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.6
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `typings install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'typings ins
tall'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular2-quickstart package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     typings install
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls angular2-quickstart
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

How do I resolve this?

Answer 1

Make sure you have typings package installed.

npm install -g typings

Also make sure you have typings.json file available.

You can follow this tutorial, from the Angular2 team.

Answer 2

Not the same error, but I had a proxy issue that was causing typings install to fail: if you had a proxy issue for npm then you will have a proxy issue for typings too.

The error I was getting is:

typings ERR! message Unable to connect to "https://api.typings.org/entries/dt/selenium-webdriver/tags/2.44.0%2B20160317120654"
typings ERR! caused by connect ECONNREFUSED 104.24.112.177:443

I fixed this by creating a settings file for typings in my %HOMEPATH% folder:

%HOMEPATH%\.typingsrc

proxy=http://DOMAIN%5Cusername:password@proxy:port/
https-proxy=http://DOMAIN%5Cusername:password@proxy:port/
rejectUnauthorized=false

See these links for more details: the first one suggests putting the .typingsrc file in your project folder, but you can use the home folder like npm.

• https://github.com/typings/typings/issues/106
• Using npm behind corporate proxy .pac