Installing mfpdev-cli via NPM causes error

Question

When installing mfpdev-cli via npm I'm receiving the following error:

$ npm install -g mfpdev-cli@latest
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-adapter-actions
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-android-support
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-config
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-preview
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-pull
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-push
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-register
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-webencrypt
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-app-webupdate
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-cmd-adapter
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-cmd-app
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-cmd-config
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-cmd-info
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-cmd-server
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-cordova-support
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-errors
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-exec
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-ios-support
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-browser-support
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-mbs
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-server-support
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mdo-windows-support
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/platform-manager
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/ibm-strings/-/ibm-strings-0.1.4.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 404
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/mfp-config-xml/-/mfp-config-xml-0.0.3.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 404
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/pluggington/-/pluggington-0.3.3.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 404

Any ideas on how to get around this and install the latest version of the MobileFirst CLI? I'm running npm version 3.10.7 on Mac OS X 10.11.6 and my node version is 4.2.4.

Thanks for your help,

John

Answer 1

I have experienced the same issue.

I checked my npm version and it was 3.10.9. I downgraded it to 2.14.7, what has resolved my issues regarding the 404 error.