Beta package.json postinstall script error

[jasonjoh]

When running the following command to install:

npm install -g yo generator-office@1.0.0-beta.1

I get the following error:

npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "yo" "generator-office@1.0.0-beta.1"
npm ERR! node v6.3.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! generator-office@1.0.0-beta.1 postinstall: `typings install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the generator-office@1.0.0-beta.1 postinstall script 'typings install'.
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 generator-office package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     typings install
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs generator-office
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls generator-office
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\jasonjoh\Source\Repos\mail-addins\outlook-addin-tutorial\npm-debug.log

I can get around this by adding typings to my install command:

npm install -g typings yo generator-office@1.0.0-beta.1

I believe the fix for this would be to change the postinstall script in package.json to:

"npm install typings"

[jasonjoh]

On further research I guess typings install is supposed to be a command that will work if typings is installed. So the fix here may be to just add typings to dependencies in the package.json. It is currently in devDependencies.

[Reezaali]

I encountered the same issue. The following also worked for me:

npm install -g typings yo generator-office@1.0.0-beta.1

[beth-panx]

I would like to migrate to use @types instead of typings, which is on a working branch now. Accidentally deleted 'typing' in the readme installation section this morning when I merged a pr. womp... Updated readme for now.