FlorientR/laravel-gentelella: npm install --global bower gulp fails - npm

Question

I want to use the following framework:
https://github.com/FlorientR/laravel-gentelella
But when I follow the installation guide I need to run the following commands:
php artisan key:generate
npm install --global bower gulp
npm install
bower install
gulp
The first command works fine, but: npm install --global bower gulp fails. It gives the following error:
> C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\har-valid
ator\src\index.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { ����������������
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:443:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\req
uest\lib\har.js:5:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\no
de_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "--global" "bower" "gulp"
npm ERR! node v0.12.7
npm ERR! npm v2.11.3
> npm ERR! C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\node_modules\
har-validator\src\index.js:1
npm ERR! (function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { �������������
���
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! Unexpected token ILLEGAL
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
The package.json contains:
{
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"prod": "gulp --production",
"dev": "gulp watch"
},
"devDependencies": {
"gulp": "^3.9.1",
"laravel-elixir": "^5.0.0",
"bootstrap-sass": "^3.0.0"
}
}
Do you guys see the problem?

Answer 1

I reinstalled NodeJs. That was the problem..