Installing with Bower not working

[xtinacosta]

Please can you check what is wrong with bower installation, Polymer/polymer package cannot be found
I tried polymer-polymer, it was found but when installing dependencies bower couldn't find core-component-page#^0.5
Maybe the packages names changed so you need to update the dependencies ....

[davidmaxwaterman]

wfm (see below). Do you have a bower.json file you can share? .bowerrc have anything in it? Perhaps do a bower cache clean and try again (I did that before doing below, to make sure I am getting the latest)?
Am I missing something? Perhaps you can post the output of your attempts to help people see what's going wrong?

(cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$ bower install Polymer/core-component-page#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-component-page.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-component-page.git#^0.5
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-component-page/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       core-component-page#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  core-component-page is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-component-page is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-component-page.git#0.5.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#^0.5
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       polymer#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  polymer is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  polymer is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#0.5.5
bower extract       webcomponentsjs#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#0.5.5
bower install       core-component-page#0.5.5
bower install       polymer#0.5.5
bower install       webcomponentsjs#0.5.5

core-component-page#0.5.5 bower_components/core-component-page
├── polymer#0.5.5
└── webcomponentsjs#0.5.5

polymer#0.5.5 bower_components/polymer
├── core-component-page#0.5.5
└── webcomponentsjs#0.5.5

webcomponentsjs#0.5.5 bower_components/webcomponentsjs
(cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$  bower list
bower check-new     Checking for new versions of the project dependencies..
tmp /home/davidmaxwaterman/tmp
└─┬ core-component-page#0.5.5 extraneous
  ├─┬ polymer#0.5.5
  │ └── webcomponentsjs#0.5.5
  └── webcomponentsjs#0.5.5
(cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$ 

[xtinacosta]

my .bowerrc looks like this:

{
"directory" : "public/bower_components",
"json" : "bower.json",
"searchpath" : "",
"shorthand_resolver" : ""
}

I did a bower cache clean then

xtina:project xtinacosta$ bower install Polymer/polymer
bower ENOTFOUND Package not found
xtina:project xtinacosta$

and when I try polymer-polymer

xtina:project xtinacosta$ bower install polymer-polymer
bower polymer-polymer#* not-cached git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#*
bower polymer-polymer#* resolve git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#*
bower polymer-polymer#* download https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower polymer-polymer#* extract archive.tar.gz
bower polymer-polymer#* invalid-meta polymer is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower polymer-polymer#* invalid-meta polymer is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower polymer-polymer#* resolved git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#0.5.5
bower core-component-page#^0.5 ENOTFOUND Package not found
xtina:project xtinacosta$

[davidmaxwaterman]

Does it work in an empty tmp/ directory, like I tried? That might help remove some variables to the problem...

I don't think polymer-polymer is correct - should be Polymer/polymer (unless things have changed or I'm "just wrong"(tm)). Unless, that is, you have such a line in your bower.json file to match it...can you share that too (though I'd try a blank directory first, as a diagnostic step)?

[xtinacosta]

Turned out it was an error in my .bowerrc file :s
I removed the searchpath & shorthand_resolver and it worked perfectly
Sorry for bothering you and thanks a lot for your help :)