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Newbie here.

I have spent hours. Goal is to install Poylmer, I tried installing bower to no end. Then did Poylmer zip file and put it in myproject directory.

I am trying to do 10 min tutorial LOL it requires bower which I have not been success full. Node, npm and Git showed good installs. Ran updates. Rebooted. Tried installs again.

Then checked node version 

  pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install node
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
node is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

Still get this:

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install bower
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bower
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo npm install -g bower
npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/bower
npm http 304 http://registry.npmjs.org/bower

npm ERR! Error: No compatible version found: bower
npm ERR! No valid targets found.
npm ERR! Perhaps not compatible with your version of node?
npm ERR!     at installTargetsError (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:488:10)
npm ERR!     at next_ (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:438:17)
npm ERR!     at next (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:415:44)
npm ERR!     at /usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:408:5
npm ERR!     at saved (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:147:7)
npm ERR!     at Object.oncomplete (/usr/lib/nodejs/graceful-fs.js:230:7)
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /home/pi/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 3.18.7-v7+
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.19
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! message No compatible version found: bower
npm ERR! message No valid targets found.
npm ERR! message Perhaps not compatible with your version of node?
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
pi@raspberrypi ~ $

I have a deadline approaching fast. All help is much appreciated. THANKS!

Pang
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Bodine
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    You're running quite an old version of Node, tried updating it as the message suggests? – dsgriffin May 03 '15 at 00:40
  • I thought I did that in the first block of code, it says "node is already the newest version" ? Did I do something wrong there? – Bodine May 03 '15 at 02:01
  • Yup, you need to enter the commands mentioned here - http://elinux.org/Node.js_on_RPi#Download_the_most_recent_arm_version_of_Node.js – dsgriffin May 03 '15 at 02:07
  • Fixed it, I needed to update npm. I had to use npm to update npm. – Bodine May 05 '15 at 16:10

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Installing Bower using npm worked for me. apt-get install of Bower won't work.

Try the following command: sudo npm install -g bower

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