react-router peerDependencies error

Question

I'm trying to install react-router but I get the following error.

$ npm install react-router
npm WARN peerDependencies The peer dependency [email protected] included from react-router will no
npm WARN peerDependencies longer be automatically installed to fulfill the peerDependency
npm WARN peerDependencies in npm 3+. Your application will need to depend on it explicitly.
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "react-router"
npm ERR! node v0.12.7
npm ERR! npm  v2.11.3
npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package react does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants react@^0.14.0-rc1
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants [email protected]
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants react@>=0.13

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\ReactApps\good start\npm-debug.log

The package.json for react in node-modules shows that I use:

"version": "0.14.0-rc1",

Should I install an earlier version? It seems that 0.13.x might be a better supported version?

If that is the case, how can I install without messing up my current project?

---

After using

npm install npm -g

I typed npm -v and saw that the version in my project is still 2.11.13. I figured that it might be a local version of NPM so I typed:

npm install npm

hoping to get the latest version updated locally, but still got 2.11.13 when I checked for the version.

comp-asus XXX64 /c/ReactApps/goodRouter/goodrouter (master)
$ npm -v
2.11.3

comp-asus XXX64 /c/ReactApps/goodRouter/goodrouter (master)
$ npm install react-router
npm WARN peerDependencies The peer dependency [email protected] included from react-router will no
npm WARN peerDependencies longer be automatically installed to fulfill the peerDependency
npm WARN peerDependencies in npm 3+. Your application will need to depend on it explicitly.
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "react-router"
npm ERR! node v0.12.7
npm ERR! npm  v2.11.3
npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package react does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants [email protected]

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\ReactApps\goodRouter\goodrouter\npm-debug.log

When checking globally I can see that it is updated:

$ npm list -g --depth=0
C:\Users\Roger\AppData\Roaming\npm

    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected] invalid
    ├── [email protected]
    └── [email protected]

But how do I use the global version in the project?

So the problem persists but I do believe you put me on the right track.

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$ where npm
C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm
C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.cmd
C:\Users\Roger\AppData\Roaming\npm\npm
C:\Users\Roger\AppData\Roaming\npm\npm.cmd

So I should delete one of these?

Answer 1

This is one of the major issues solved in npm@3. See https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/6565 for details.

Updating npm is the right thing to do:

$ npm install npm -g