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Aaron Webb
Aaron Webb

Reputation: 67

Bower install malformed on mac

When running bower install on Mac it fails with:

bower    EMALFORMED Failed to read bower_components/jquery/.bower.json

Additional error details:
Unexpected token }

When viewing the file you can see that indeed there is an extra bracket at the end. It seems that these files are generated by Bower.

It works fine on a couple Ubuntu boxes and the extra bracket is not there so not sure if it is somehow Mac specific.

We've tried to reinstall bower and bower cache clean with no luck. Any ideas appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 469

Answers (1)

Aaron Webb
Aaron Webb

Reputation: 67

There was a dependency that was referencing an exact version of jquery that was quite old and ended up with multiple versions of jquery downloaded. I fixed the jquery reference in the offending dependency and the problem resolved. I'm not sure why it only broke on one platform.

Upvotes: 1

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