bower ENOTFOUND Package App States=bower.json not found

Question

How can I fix the following problem?

aaa@aaa $ bower install bower.json

bower bower.json#*              cached git://github.com/Kalitte/app-states.git#0.6.9
bower bower.json#*            validate 0.6.9 against git://github.com/Kalitte/app-states.git#*
bower webcomponentsjs#~0.5.4    cached git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#0.5.5
bower webcomponentsjs#~0.5.4  validate 0.5.5 against git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#~0.5.4
bower                        ENOTFOUND Package App States=bower.json not found

bower ENOTFOUND Package App States=bower.json not found

Answer 1

I don't know how or at what point this happened, but it happened to me and if you look inside your bower_components folder there maybe a folder called App States. I deleted this folder and I was able to do an install.