"Invalid namespace" when running yo angular

[hkgrani]

I successfully uninstalled grunt and installed yo, grunt-cli and bower as per instructions. I then verified that yo webapp did work
I then did npm install -g generator-angular and it seems to run fine

However, when running yo angular I get this error message ;

Error angular

Invalid namespace: angular (or not yet registered).
Registered: 4 namespace(s). Run with the --help option to list them.

Please let me know if this is not the right place to post issues like these

[passy]

For the moment, you can't install generators globally. See yeoman/generator#171

[hkgrani]

Wow. That was quick. Its working now. Will reply to Briand tweet where I copied the command from. Thanks!!

[btford]

Yep, that was my bad. I've attempted to alert the masses.

[rstuven]

I'm getting the same error in Windows:

C:\>mkdir test
C:\>cd test
C:\test>npm install generator-angular
C:\test>npm install generator-testacular
C:\test>yo angular
Error angular

Invalid namespace: angular (or not yet registered).
 Registered: 14 namespace(s). Run with the `--help` option to list them.

Versions for reference:

C:\test>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

C:\test>node -v
v0.8.20

C:\test>npm -v
1.2.11

C:\test>npm ls
C:\test
├─┬ generator-angular@0.1.3
...
└─┬ generator-testacular@0.1.1
...

C:\test>npm ls -g
C:\Users\rstuven\AppData\Roaming\npm
├─┬ bower@0.7.1
...
├─┬ grunt-cli@0.1.6
...
└─┬ yo@1.0.0-beta.2
...

[btford]

in Windows

:/

@rstuven: have you tried/can you try yo webapp to see if that works?

[sindresorhus]

As said in the docs, it's not currently working in Windows.

[rstuven]

@btford Yes, :/ , but I'm trying to convince other team members to use yeoman ;)

yo webapp had the same problem. I tracked down the issue to yeoman-generator and fixed it (see pull request above). Now the docs are wrong, @sindresorhus :)

[btford]

@rstuven the :/ was for debugging platform-specific issues in general. I'll have to take a look at your fix, but thanks!

[heavysixer]

This tripped me up too, in fact I was copy and pasting the instructions for an Angular scaffold directly from the website where it specifies the -g parameter:
http://yeoman.io/

[kevva]

Global generators works now. Maybe you haven't updated yo, npm cache clean && npm update -g yo.

[heavysixer]

You are exactly right @kevva !