404 error prevents npm install from working

[jwithington]

Expected Behavior

Able to install using npm install without errors.

Current Behavior

Using npm install resulted in the following error. I'm also Including the referenced log file.

MacBook-Pro-5:fuzzy-chainsaw-master jwithington$ npm install
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found: gulp-merge@https://registry.npmjs.org/gulp-merge/-/gulp-merge-0.1.0.tgz

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/jwithington/.npm/_logs/2018-04-13T00_36_12_901Z-debug.log

2018-04-13T00_36_12_901Z-debug.log

Possible Solution

Looks like gulp-merge is now on version 0.1.1, but also, the link to the project github points to something called merge2.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. download zip file
2. Run npm install on the directory

Your Environment

• Operating System and version (desktop or mobile): macOS 10.13.4

[jwithington]

Worth pointing out that yarn worked, but did result in a warning. See issue #363 for more!

[jwithington]

Possible reason for this: I was checking out VuePress this morning, and they note that, at least for their project, using NPM fails in "an existing project that has webpack 3.x as a dependency. Npm fails to generate the correct dependency tree in this case."

Thought this might help our detective work.