Cannot install jasmine-core on Windows 7 / OSX

Question

I am trying to install karma-jasmine on Windows 7 / Git Bash, according to these guidelines: http://karma-runner.github.io/0.13/intro/installation.html

However, the installation fails for jasmine-core:

$ npm install karma-jasmine karma-chrome-launcher --save-dev
npm WARN install Couldn't install optional dependency: Unsupported
[email protected] g:\SW Engineering\ngUT
├── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY jasmine-core@*
├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ └── [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └─┬ [email protected]
│     └── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

npm WARN EPEERINVALID [email protected] requires a peer of jasmine-core@* but
none was installed.

I tried the installation first with Cygwin, only to learn that npm is not supported on Cygwin, but there the failing dependency was fsevent.

The global installation of jasmine-core succeeds, but I am trying to follow this tutorial and karma start karma.conf.js fails for the same reason (missing jasmine-core) with the global installation as well.

Finally, the exact same problem appears on OSX as well.

Answer 1

Karma v.0.13.16 just did not support v.5.3.0 of Node. The supported Node versions were listed on Karma installation page.