gulpjs/gulp

Uninstall and install issues

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Deleted user commented

I was updating gulp and followed the new instructions for removing the global gulp install and then installing gulp-cli. I did so and now I am getting errors during install and don't know what is going on. Attached is the log. Can someone please help? Thanks, Jeff
npm-debug.txt

tmcgee123 commented

@jkinley This actually happened to me when I was flipping between Gulp 3 and 4 multiple times. That directory gets locked up after npm install sometimes. You'll have to:

  1. rm -rf /usr/local/share/man/man1/gulp.1
  2. npm rm --global gulp
  3. npm install --global https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp.git#4.0
  4. This is non-standard I think, but I've found this works better for me than using the npm install --global gulp-cli, I'm not sure if this is correct as per @phated's docs but it's what I've had to do to run Gulp 4, so try this instead: npm install --global https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp-cli.git#4.0

That should get you what you need. After that, run gulp -v to see what versions you are on, mine is this:
[09:32:43] CLI version 0.4.0
[09:32:43] Local version 4.0.0-alpha.2

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phated commented

Support questions should be directed to StackOverflow. Plus, this is an npm issue.

@tmcgee123 the 4.0 branch on the gulp-cli repo is super out of date, please use the published version, which supports both gulp 3 and 4 and has many features and fixes since that branch was merged. I am going to be removing it soon (next couple of days probably).

tmcgee123 commented

Thanks @phated for the heads up. 👍

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moehammoud commented

Cheers, @tmcgee123. Worked a treat.