How to fix bower ECMDERR

Question

I\'m using \"yeoman\" and \"bower\" on windows 7 but got the following error when I create the app

yo webapp

The error is

Answer 1

In my case it was the antivirus' firewall preventing bower to connect with github. I hadn't realized the antivirus was asking through a windows whether i wanted to allow git to perform connection or not.

I allowed it and it worked like a charm :)

Answer 2

Instead of struggling with this, just manually download it and then do a bower install from local folder instead.

Answer 3

For me updating git to the newest version helped.

Answer 4

I work with VS 2015 and have the NoGit package installed. Updated it to the 0.1.0 and it fixed the problem.

Hope this might help someone.

Answer 5

I had the same problem and the answer above didn't work for me. But I found an other one. You can have a problem with your proxy. If you are behind a proxy you have to do theses steps :

put this in .bowerrc to get rid of the err ETIMEDOUT :

{
    "directory": "app/bower_components",
    "proxy": "http://PROXYSERVER:PORT",
    "https-proxy": "https://PROXYSERVER:PORT",
    "strict-ssl": false
}

And this one to get rid of ECMDERR :

git config --global http.proxy http://USER:PASSWORD@PROXYSERVER:PORT

it works for me.

P.S : sorry for my english mistakes I'm french^^

Answer 6

Following commands work for me

npm cache clean

bower cache clean

and then

bower install