npm: Error: unknown package: npm-container

I’ve stumbled upon an error trying to run on a Linux box an app that is running fine on OSX. I doubt it’s due to the architecture. It would probably fail on a different Mac as well.

The error is the following:

tanis@samantha:~/soulvenir-meteor$ meteor
Figuring out the best package versions to use. This may take a moment.
Refreshing package metadata. This may take a moment.
Could not resolve the specified constraints for this project:
Error: unknown package: npm-container
tanis@samantha:~/soulvenir-meteor$

About this issue

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State: open
Created 10 years ago
Comments: 22 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

works for me:

remove from .meteor/packages line npm-container
run meteor again

+10

galkinsergeyv on Dec 18, 2014

This solution does not work when deploying with meteor up though, so it’s quite troublesome. I think the only solution to that is to actually keep the node modules committed.

sylido on Feb 29, 2016

@FrequentFlyerU you must first run meteor on your app’s dir (having meteorhacks:npm declared on .meteor/packages). After running the meteor command, 2 things will happen:

npm-container will be automatically added to .meteor/packages.
packages/npm-container dir will be created.

Then you can add it to version control. I still don’t like this (you didn’t need to add to git the npm modules on previous versions of meteorhacks:npm).

taromero on Oct 20, 2014