Existing Yeoman generator and npm link

[StfBauer]

I have some local generators that I currently use. Those generators worked with older version just fine. Now I have the problem that npm link doesn't work anymore and the generator won't be detected.
I am running on OS X 10.11.5.

node: 3.5.3
npm: v4.2.1

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Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root
✔ Node.js version
✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory
✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✔ npm version

Everything looks all right!

When I take a look at the global node modules the generator link to the correct folder. Are there some things I currently miss out. I also checked the guidande on yeoman.io.

[eddiemonge]

what do you mean "doesn't work anymore"? Can you be more specific please?

[StfBauer]

I 'npm link' the generator but when I try 'yo ' It says that the generator is not available, but linked in global npm packages. Worked before.

Error <generator> 

You don't seem to have a generator with the name <generator> installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 61 registered generators run yo with the `--help` option.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Changed real name of generators to because there are more than one affected.

[SBoudrias]

@StfBauer you can run with DEBUG=yeoman:* yo and get more insight into the paths yo is exploring.

[StfBauer]

All generators listed in the directories work fine but somehow the links in this folder cannot be resolved.
Any hint on that?

drwxr-xr-x  18 stefanbauer  staff   612  7 Jun 01:52 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 stefanbauer  staff   102  6 Mai 14:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x  22 stefanbauer  staff   748  7 Jun 01:26 generator-angular
drwxr-xr-x  55 stefanbauer  staff  1870  7 Jun 01:26 generator-aspnet
lrwxr-xr-x   1 stefanbauer  staff    40  7 Jun 01:46 generator-displaytemplates -> /Volumes/Code/generator-displaytemplates
drwxr-xr-x  14 stefanbauer  staff   476 16 Mai 17:43 generator-element
drwxr-xr-x   6 stefanbauer  staff   204  7 Jun 01:26 generator-generator
drwxr-xr-x   6 stefanbauer  staff   204  7 Jun 01:26 generator-karma
drwxr-xr-x   8 stefanbauer  staff   272  7 Jun 01:26 generator-office
drwxr-xr-x  12 stefanbauer  staff   408 18 Mai 14:15 generator-polymer
drwxr-xr-x  12 stefanbauer  staff   408 16 Mai 16:34 generator-sharepoint
lrwxr-xr-x   1 stefanbauer  staff    44  7 Jun 01:52 generator-simplestyle -> /Volumes/Code/projects/generator-simplestyle
drwxr-xr-x   6 stefanbauer  staff   204  7 Jun 01:26 generator-webapp
drwxr-xr-x  11 stefanbauer  staff   374  6 Mai 14:59 jshint
drwxr-xr-x  25 stefanbauer  staff   850  6 Mai 15:30 npm
drwxr-xr-x  21 stefanbauer  staff   714  5 Jun 14:51 tslint
drwxr-xr-x  13 stefanbauer  staff   442  5 Jun 14:51 typescript
drwxr-xr-x   6 stefanbauer  staff   204  7 Jun 00:06 yo

[SBoudrias]

If you run which yo, does it point to the yo in that folder? My guess is that it doesn't. You might have two version of yo installed.

[StfBauer]

Yeah you are right it doesn't point to the folder. So uninstall everything yo related and reinstall?

[SBoudrias]

@StfBauer it's an issue with npm and the way it is setup. My guess is you also have two npm installed.

[StfBauer]

@SBoudrias Fixed it. Trashed NodeJS installation and reinstalled. Works now. Thank you for your support.