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When I run the command grunt I get the following warning: 

Running "karma:unit" (karma) task
Warning: No provider for "framework:jasmine"! (Resolving: framework:jasmine) Use --force to continue.

Does anybody know how to resolve this issue?

Walter Brand
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I had the same error after creating a new project the yeoman angular generator (yo angular).

The solution for me was adding "karma-jasmine" to the devDependencies in packages.json and running "npm install" again.

npm install karma-jasmine --save-dev

This solved the error message "No provider for “framework:jasmine”!"

I also had to add a karma browser launcher to the devDependencies, as I got the message that no launcher was installed (see http://karma-runner.github.io/0.10/config/browsers.html).

npm install karma-safari-launcher --save-dev

My packages.json looked like this after my action:

{
  "name": "test1",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "dependencies": {},
  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-autoprefixer": "~0.4.0",
    "grunt-bower-install": "~0.7.0",
    "grunt-concurrent": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-coffee": "~0.7.0",
    "grunt-contrib-compass": "~0.6.0",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.5.0",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "~0.7.0",
    "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "~0.1.3",
    "grunt-contrib-imagemin": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.7.1",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.2",
    "grunt-google-cdn": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-newer": "~0.5.4",
    "grunt-ngmin": "~0.0.2",
    "grunt-rev": "~0.1.0",
    "grunt-svgmin": "~0.2.0",
    "grunt-usemin": "~2.0.0",
    "jshint-stylish": "~0.1.3",
    "load-grunt-tasks": "~0.2.0",
    "time-grunt": "~0.2.1",
    "karma-ng-scenario": "^0.1.0",
    "grunt-karma": "^0.8.0",
    "karma": "^0.12.0",
    "karma-jasmine": "~0.2.2",
    "karma-safari-launcher": "~0.1.1",
    "karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor": "^0.1.0"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=0.8.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "grunt test"
  }
}

I changed the following line in karma.conf en karma-e2e.conf to use the karma-safari-launcher:

browsers: ['Safari'],

I hope this will work for you, too.

Taco
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    Thanks! The only thing I did different was that I used chrome `npm install karma-chrome-launcher --save-dev` – Luciano Apr 09 '14 at 18:54
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    @KyleHayes Here is the bug report in the generator-angular project: https://github.com/yeoman/generator-angular/issues/629 – cjerdonek Jun 12 '14 at 22:04
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    I got `Error: No provider for "framework:karma-chrome-launcher"!` after this – David Sep 29 '15 at 21:32
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    If you have plugins: [...] added to karma.config.js, then installing karma-jasmine will not solve the issue. you have to add 'karma-jasmine' to plugins array like plugins: ['karma-jasmine']. – Thaadikkaaran Mar 04 '16 at 10:39
  • As per my understanding "npm install karma-jasmine --save-dev" was not having any effect on package.json. So Thanks for this solution. – Andy Apr 12 '16 at 03:39
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As @Taco said, the default solution for this problem is installing the appropriate plugin, like this: npm install karma-jasmine --save-dev or this: npm install karma-mocha --save-dev.

However, this error is also expected when you are running an old version of karma-cli because they updated the way karma loads the plugins. To make sure you have the latest version, run this:

npm install -g karma-cli
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    This fixed it for me. I had the dependencies previously mentioned, but karma-cli was out-of-date, apparently. – icfantv Aug 02 '15 at 03:21
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    This fixed my problem. Thanks buddy – shaikh Sep 04 '16 at 14:21
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    I ran into this too. Evidently, `npm install -g karma` is *not* the same thing as `npm install -g karma-cli`. – Peter Majeed Dec 27 '16 at 14:18
  • @PeterMajeed After installing Jasmine, I thought maybe I could `npm install -g karma` but this does NOT work. You must use `npm install -g karma-cli` – Cobertos Jan 24 '18 at 21:58
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My problem was in my karma.config.js file:

plugins: [require("karma-webpack")]

This caused the other karma-* plugins not to be loaded, which includes karma-jasmine.

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    aleclarson's was also my problem. Since `karma-webpack` was already in my `package.json`'s `devDependencies`, I commented out this `plugins` entry in my `karma.config.js` file. – dave_k_smith Oct 07 '16 at 18:56
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If your karma.conf.js specifies a plugins attribute, be sure to add karma-jasmine to the list. If all the plugins are prefixed with karma-, you don't need to specify this attribute as the plugins will be automatically loaded.

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    Thanks, this resolved my issue, adding karma-jasmine to the plugins! – sandip Dec 10 '15 at 09:16
  • Thanks this worked - this is the full line. ```plugins: ['karma-jasmine', 'karma-chrome-launcher', 'karma-spec-reporter', 'karma-coverage'],``` – Sam Deering Nov 08 '17 at 06:11
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It happened to me because I had Karma installed globally, and when I ran karma start command it actually ran in /usr/... rather than my dev directory.

In my case the solution was to remove karma and install karma-cli instead.

npm remove -g karma
npm install -g karma-cli
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My problem was the selected "Karma package" in the IntelliJ run configuration. I did not select the project's karma package in the project's "node_module" folder: enter image description here

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