package.json malformed JSON?

[coderigo]

I got an error while running yeoman's angular generator, yo angular, which in turn installs minimatch as a dependency. The exact error has to do with parsing minimatch's package.json file which it doesn't seem to think is valid JSON.

I tried require-ing package.json in a separate node instance and it seemed to be OK, so not sure if this is really a bug in minimatch or npm's fault despite it professing it's not in the error message.

If anyone can reproduce on their end I can take a more detailed look, or if anyone knows why this may be happening we can can this issue.

[nishigori]

@coderigo I also had the same experience.
I think you maybe hope to install version 0.3.0, but npm cache specified 0.2.14.
In my case, exec $ npm cache clear or $ rm -rf ~/.npm/minimatch*, install successful.

[CombatCode]

yes, the value of "readme" key is broken, probably to long?
After edit /home/combat/.npm/minimatch/0.2.14/package/package.json and remove value of this key, everything goes well

[isaacs]

This is an npm bug that has been fixed, but can result in invalid data being in the cache folder.

npm i npm -g
npm cache clean

and the problem will be gone.