Strange Error

[jacensherman]

Hi, I'm Jacen Sherman. I'm one of the MSPs working on the sphero pilot program. I have recently been having trouble simply adding sphero.js to my project.

I am simply running the command (on windows 8):
npm install --save sphero

About a week ago this worked fine for me. But now I am getting a very long error.

Sorry for the length but here is the whole stream...

npm WARN package.json [email protected] No description
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No README data
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/spheron
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/spheron

[email protected] install C:\Users\Jacen\Google Drive\Work\Microsoft\Tap Of War
\Code\Tap Of War\node_modules\spheron\node_modules\serialport
node-gyp rebuild

C:\Users\Jacen\Google Drive\Work\Microsoft\Tap Of War\Code\Tap Of War\node_modul
es\spheron\node_modules\serialport>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\np
m\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: spawn ENOENT
gyp ERR! stack at errnoException (child_process.js:998:11)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:
34)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modu
les\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Jacen\Google Drive\Work\Microsoft\Tap Of War\Code\Tap Of W
ar\node_modules\spheron\node_modules\serialport
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.28
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.13.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the serialport package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls serialport
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nod
ejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "spheron"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Users\Jacen\Google Drive\Work\Microsoft\Tap Of War\Code\Tap Of W
ar
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.28
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Jacen\Google Drive\Work\Microsoft\Tap Of War\Code\Tap Of W
ar\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[axelpale]

I am experiencing similar problem

$ npm install --save spheron
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No README data
npm WARN package.json [email protected] homepage field must start with a protocol.
npm WARN install Refusing to install spheron as a dependency of itself

A hacky solution is to install by using the GitHub URL:

$ npm install --save alchemycs/spheron