gulp-notify: [Error in notifier] Error in plugin 'gulp-notify' not found: notify-send

Question

I'm trying to setup Gulp in my install of Laravel 5.1. I've ran then command npm install as specified in the Laravel documentation and that's worked fine.

However, when I now run the command gulp I get the following message:

ubuntu@NAME:/var/www/html/FOLDER# gulp
[14:04:56] Using gulpfile /var/www/html/FOLDER/gulpfile.js
[14:04:56] Starting 'default'...
[14:04:56] Starting 'sass'...
[14:04:56] Running Sass: resources/assets/sass/app.scss
[14:04:56] Finished 'default' after 532 ms
[14:04:56] gulp-notify: [Laravel Elixir] Sass Compiled!
[14:04:56] Finished 'sass' after 666 ms
[14:04:56] gulp-notify: [Error in notifier] Error in plugin 'gulp-notify'
not found: notify-send

Has anyone else encountered the error?

gulp-notify: [Error in notifier] Error in plugin 'gulp-notify'
not found: notify-send

Thanks

Answer 1

I've found a resolution to this issue myself. I ran the following commands on my Ubuntu box:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

After that, I can now run gulp and get the following:

ubuntu@NAME:/var/www/html/FOLDER# gulp
[14:06:59] Using gulpfile /var/www/html/FOLDER/gulpfile.js
[14:06:59] Starting 'default'...
[14:06:59] Starting 'sass'...
[14:06:59] Running Sass: resources/assets/sass/app.scss
[14:07:00] Finished 'default' after 736 ms
[14:07:00] gulp-notify: [Laravel Elixir] Sass Compiled!
[14:07:00] Finished 'sass' after 931 ms

All looks good. Hopefully that will be of use to other SO users.

Answer 2

For CentOS/Fedora/RedHat 7 users:

sudo yum install libnotify

(no "-bin")