Errors starting the Yeoman app generator

[eamas5525]

I'm unable to successfully execute yo ng2-alfresco-app on Ubuntu Server 16.04, node v6.9.1, and npm v3.10.8.

I've tried using npm cache clean and rebooting without luck.

My terminal output is below. Everything is ok on installing yo and the generator-ng2-alfresco-app. 

Any hints or help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks.

[eamas5525]

Tried uninstalling generator-ng2-alfresco-app and yo, then reinstalled without using the -g "global" option and things installed fine. I made a directory for my project, cd'd into that directory and ran the yo ng2-alfresco-app and luckily the generator banner showed up. Looks like this is resolved. 

[udayakumar_p]

I am having an issue in creating new project. Tried to run 

yo ng2-alfresco-app

Got following error.

index.js:10
async initializing() {
^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object.get [as ng2-alfresco-app:app] (
\node_modules\yo\node_modules\yeoman-environment\lib\store.js:38:27)

[eugenio_romano]

Hi, can you give us more details node version and OS?

[udayakumar_p]

Hi,

node: 6.10.1

npm version 4.4.4

OS: Windows 7

npm is actually installed into <user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules

Followed this guide:

GitHub - Alfresco/generator-ng2-alfresco-app: Yeoman Generator Angular 2 Alfresco Application 

[eugenio_romano]

can you try to update node to the LTS version 8.9.1?

[dvuika]

The official LTS version of node is 8.9.1. We use the 8.x branch for the Yeoman generators, the 9.x should also work fine. The 6.x is no longer supported.

[udayakumar_p]

Thanks for the reply. i am finding it hard to update node. there are restrictions on my system. let me check what can be done.

[dvuika]

There are native installers for various platforms: Node.js . You will have to upgrade anyway at some point, as you are not going to get any support for node.js issues for the non-supported version.

[udayakumar_p]

Hi,

I was able to use node 8.9.4. Now when i run 

yo ng2-alfresco-app

It asks project name and then it asks to install dependencies. When i say yes, the npm install stucks at 

sill install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree

Same issue when runnning, 

yo ng2-alfresco-app --install

Can you please help