How to : update fontawesome with bower

Question

I can see on FontAwesome GitHub that a new version 4.2 has been release

I use bower 1.3.9 (latest), and my current version of font awesome is 4.1

When I type bower update fontawesome or bower update fontawesome#4.2 I can't get the 4.2.

Is there a way to update font awesome to 4.2 with bower ?

Into the bower.json of fontawesome bower components directory, I can see this git url git://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git which is slightly the same as https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git where the latest version is available.

Any help would be appreciated

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 07 '15 at 16:03

I have edited my bower.json file and replaced the line:

"fontawesome": "~4.1.0",

with:

"fontawesome": "https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#~4.2.0"

Finally, I did bower install fontawesome --save.

It finally updated font awesome.

bower cached        https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#4.2.0
bower validate      4.2.0 against https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#~4.2.0
bower cached        git://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#4.1.0
bower validate      4.1.0 against git://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#*
bower new           version for git://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#*
bower resolve       git://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#*
bower download      https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/archive/v4.2.0.tar.gz
bower extract       fontawesome#* archive.tar.gz
bower resolved      git://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git#4.2.0
bower install       fontawesome#4.2.0

I have reopened my bower.json, my line has been replaced by:

"fontawesome": "~4.2.0",

Hope it helps.

Good to see you solved your initial problem, but I think the real problem here was related to `semver`. If the version you intended to install was not "approximately equivalent" (`~`) to the version you had specified on your `bower.json` file, you wouldn't get it to work. — Wallace Sidhrée, Feb 07 '16 at 13:10

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '15 at 09:33

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I think you can also simply run:

/var/shared/bower> bower install font-awesome#4.3.0 --save
font-awesome#4.3.0 bower_components/font-awesome

It will replace the current font-awesome version with the new one. ( it won't create a new dir )

answered Feb 11 '15 at 09:33

Ricky Levi

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at the time I wrote, this solution wasn't working, even if 4.2.0 was release on github – Dimitri Kopriwa Feb 11 '15 at 16:49
I know, I just thought of placing a comment for others who see this, because I was struggling with this myself and found your post ..:) – Ricky Levi Feb 12 '15 at 12:36

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 16 '15 at 08:59

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Please add following line to your bower.json file

"components-font-awesome": "~4.5.0"

then run a "bower install" command on your command line.

answered Dec 16 '15 at 08:59

SafeHouse

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Where is the difference between "font-awesome" and "components-font-awesome" and which of those should be preferred? – Pille Jan 15 '16 at 08:14

How to : update fontawesome with bower

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