Issues with adding ionic-service-core

Question

I'm working on adding in ionic-service-core in order to add notifications to an ionic project I'm working on. I can't however, get the service core to install. Any attempts to do so result in this:

Failed to find the bower component "ionic-service-core".
Are you sure it exists? (CLI v1.4.0-alpha.6)

Your system information:

OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.10.33
Cordova CLI: 5.0.0
Ionic Version: 1.0.0-rc.5
Ionic CLI Version: 1.4.0-alpha.6
Xcode version: Xcode 6.3.1 Build version 6D1002 
ios-sim version: Not installed

Anyone have any experience working with ionic and the new services packages? Any clue what would cause this?

Answer 1

To test that you have bower installed, run the command bower. If this is unrecognized, install with command npm install -g bower and afterwards run ionic add ionic-service-core.

This worked for me in Windows.

Answer 2

Looks like the whole thing is a permissions issue with the users .config file. If you simply delete the .config folder sitting at Users/username/.config, and retry adding the components, they'll work.

Answer 3

Here is a trick that works for me, you can first use bower install to install your package, and then use ionic add that will find the bower package previously installed :

1. bower install myPackage
2. ionic add myPackage

Works for me because of being behind a proxy.