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Error after installation

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Please provide us with the following information:

OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

Mac OS X Yosemite

Versions. Please run ng --version. If there’s nothing outputted, please run in a Terminal: node --version And paste the result here.

node --version v5.11.1

Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn’t created using the CLI? What change did you do on your code? etc.

Fresh install of Node via NVM. Ran npm install -g angular-cli, completes without issue (just lodash warnings, no errors).

Unable to run ng --version, ng --help, or any other command without generating the below error.

The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some more information.

/Users/josephpowers/.nvm/versions/node/v5.11.1/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/models/project.js:669
      throw reason;
      ^

SyntaxError: /Users/josephpowers/package.json: Unexpected end of input
    at Object.parse (native)
    at Object.Module._extensions..json (module.js:430:27)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Function.Project.getProjectRoot (/Users/josephpowers/.nvm/versions/node/v5.11.1/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/models/project.js:655:15)
    at module.exports (/Users/josephpowers/.nvm/versions/node/v5.11.1/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/cli/index.js:51:22)
    at module.exports (/Users/josephpowers/.nvm/versions/node/v5.11.1/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/index.js:102:10)
    at /Users/josephpowers/.nvm/versions/node/v5.11.1/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/bin/ng:31:5

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nanomoffetcommented, Jun 10, 2016

Somehow an empty package.json was initialized in the home directory which was conflicting with it. Once I deleted that file, it started working fine.

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