Unable to install appium

Latha 2016-10-28 10:21:28 UTC #1

I'm new to Appium and I have tried to install appium with command :
npm install -g appium

Error message shown is -

appium@1.6.0-beta3 prepublish /Users/srilathakondapalli/appium
gulp prepublish

sh: gulp: command not found

npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /Users/srilathakondapalli/appium
npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "appium"
npm ERR! node v4.4.7
npm ERR! npm v3.10.9
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! appium@1.6.0-beta3 prepublish: gulp prepublish
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the appium@1.6.0-beta3 prepublish script 'gulp prepublish'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the appium package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! gulp prepublish
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs appium
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls appium
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /Users/srilathakondapalli/npm-debug.log

Can anyone please help me fixing this.

Aleksei 2016-10-28 10:52:09 UTC #2

brew update
sudo npm install gulp -g

Latha 2016-10-28 10:57:48 UTC #3

Tried to run these commands. Brew is up to date and when I run command sudo npm install gulp -g i receive warnings.

npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
/usr/local/bin/gulp -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js
/usr/local/lib
└── gulp@3.9.1

Aleksei 2016-10-28 11:00:04 UTC #4

try also as suggested:
Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
/usr/local/bin/gulp -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js

Latha 2016-10-28 11:30:40 UTC #5

I have tried this before replying. I tried with npm ls graceful-fs which resulted:
/Users/srilathakondapalli
├─┬ appium@1.5.3
│ ├─┬ appium-fake-driver@0.1.10
│ │ └─┬ babel-core@5.8.24
│ │ └─┬ regenerator@0.8.35
│ │ └─┬ commoner@0.10.4
│ │ └── graceful-fs@4.1.4
│ └─┬ fsevents@1.0.14
│ └─┬ node-pre-gyp@0.6.29
│ └─┬ tar@2.2.1
│ └─┬ fstream@1.0.10
│ └── graceful-fs@4.1.4
└─┬ wd@1.0.0
└─┬ archiver@1.1.0
└─┬ archiver-utils@1.3.0
└── graceful-fs@4.1.9

Then I tried install gulp with : sudo npm install gulp -g which gave result:
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
/usr/local/bin/gulp -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js
/usr/local/lib
└── gulp@3.9.1

Then I tried to update minimatch with : npm install -g minimatch@3.0.2

npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
/usr/local/lib
└─┬ minimatch@3.0.2 
  └─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.6 
    ├── balanced-match@0.4.2 
    └── concat-map@0.0.1 

npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "minimatch@3.0.2"
npm ERR! node v4.4.7
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.9
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/srilathakondapalli/npm-debug.log

Latha 2016-10-28 11:35:55 UTC #6

I tried the same before replying.
npm ls graceful-fs

Which Resulted -
/Users/srilathakondapalli
├─┬ appium@1.5.3
│ ├─┬ appium-fake-driver@0.1.10
│ │ └─┬ babel-core@5.8.24
│ │ └─┬ regenerator@0.8.35
│ │ └─┬ commoner@0.10.4
│ │ └── graceful-fs@4.1.4
│ └─┬ fsevents@1.0.14
│ └─┬ node-pre-gyp@0.6.29
│ └─┬ tar@2.2.1
│ └─┬ fstream@1.0.10
│ └── graceful-fs@4.1.4
└─┬ wd@1.0.0
└─┬ archiver@1.1.0
└─┬ archiver-utils@1.3.0
└── graceful-fs@4.1.9

Then I ran command to install gulp - sudo npm install gulp -g
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
/usr/local/bin/gulp -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js
/usr/local/lib
└── gulp@3.9.1

Then I tried to update minimatch : npm install -g minimatch@3.0.2
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
/usr/local/lib
└─┬ minimatch@3.0.2
└─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.6
├── balanced-match@0.4.2
└── concat-map@0.0.1

npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "minimatch@3.0.2"
npm ERR! node v4.4.7
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.9
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/srilathakondapalli/npm-debug.log

Latha 2016-10-28 12:40:38 UTC #7

I tried the same before replying.
npm ls graceful-fs

npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "minimatch@3.0.2"
npm ERR! node v4.4.7
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.9
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/srilathakondapalli/npm-debug.log

pavanbachu 2016-10-28 13:28:22 UTC #8

Why are you trying to command beta versions ?

Latha 2016-10-29 07:50:28 UTC #9

As Appium 1.5.3 is not supporting iOS 10 and Xcode 8 versions.