Bower package not found

[xtinacosta]

When I run
bower install Polymer/paper-button
I get
bower ENOTFOUND Package not found
are you sure your elements are still registered?

[Nevraeka]

It's still supported according to the docs - paper-button

bower search paper-button yields 2 results for me but none of them are the correct repository.
@azakus - was this moved or renamed in bower?

[davidmaxwaterman]

Odd - it's working for me :

cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$ rm -rf bower_components/
(cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$ bower cache clean
bower deleted       Cached package core-component-page: /home/davidmaxwaterman/.cache/bower/packages/ad4597c35459f16f18caf699c3070351/0.5.5
bower deleted       Cached package polymer: /home/davidmaxwaterman/.cache/bower/packages/4b3248bac6c187112723518244e6fe5a/0.5.5
bower deleted       Cached package webcomponentsjs: /home/davidmaxwaterman/.cache/bower/packages/6000e00dae2c4a1b827f158835c30d5f/0.5.5
(cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$ bower install Polymer/paper-button
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/paper-button.git#*
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/paper-button.git#*
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/paper-button/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       paper-button#* archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  paper-button is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  paper-button is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/paper-button.git#0.5.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-a11y-keys.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-a11y-keys.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-focusable.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-focusable.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-icon.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-icon.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/paper-ripple.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/paper-ripple.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/paper-shadow.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/paper-shadow.git#^0.5
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-a11y-keys/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/paper-ripple/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-icon/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-focusable/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/paper-shadow/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       core-icon#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  core-icon is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-icon is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-icon.git#0.5.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset.git#^0.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-icons.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-icons.git#^0.5
bower extract       paper-shadow#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-icons/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       paper-ripple#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  paper-shadow is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  paper-shadow is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  paper-ripple is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  paper-ripple is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/paper-ripple.git#0.5.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/font-roboto.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/font-roboto.git#^0.5
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/paper-shadow.git#0.5.5
bower extract       core-focusable#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  core-focusable is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-focusable is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower extract       core-a11y-keys#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-focusable.git#0.5.5
bower invalid-meta  core-a11y-keys is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-a11y-keys.git#0.5.5
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 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 not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs.git#^0.5
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-component-page/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/webcomponentsjs/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/font-roboto/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       core-icons#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  core-icons is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-icons.git#0.5.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset-svg.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset-svg.git#^0.5
bower extract       core-iconset#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  core-iconset is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-iconset is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset-svg/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset.git#0.5.5
bower not-cached    git://github.com/Polymer/core-meta.git#^0.5
bower resolve       git://github.com/Polymer/core-meta.git#^0.5
bower download      https://github.com/Polymer/core-meta/archive/0.5.5.tar.gz
bower extract       font-roboto#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  font-roboto is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  font-roboto is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/font-roboto.git#0.5.5
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 extract       core-meta#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower extract       core-iconset-svg#^0.5 archive.tar.gz
bower invalid-meta  core-meta is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-meta is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-iconset-svg is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta  core-iconset-svg is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-meta.git#0.5.5
bower resolved      git://github.com/Polymer/core-iconset-svg.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       paper-button#0.5.5
bower install       core-icon#0.5.5
bower install       paper-ripple#0.5.5
bower install       paper-shadow#0.5.5
bower install       core-focusable#0.5.5
bower install       core-a11y-keys#0.5.5
bower install       polymer#0.5.5
bower install       core-icons#0.5.5
bower install       core-iconset#0.5.5
bower install       font-roboto#0.5.5
bower install       core-component-page#0.5.5
bower install       core-meta#0.5.5
bower install       core-iconset-svg#0.5.5
bower install       webcomponentsjs#0.5.5

paper-button#0.5.5 bower_components/paper-button
├── core-a11y-keys#0.5.5
├── core-focusable#0.5.5
├── core-icon#0.5.5
├── paper-ripple#0.5.5
├── paper-shadow#0.5.5
└── polymer#0.5.5

core-icon#0.5.5 bower_components/core-icon
├── core-icons#0.5.5
└── core-iconset#0.5.5

paper-ripple#0.5.5 bower_components/paper-ripple
├── core-icon#0.5.5
├── core-icons#0.5.5
└── font-roboto#0.5.5

paper-shadow#0.5.5 bower_components/paper-shadow
└── polymer#0.5.5

core-focusable#0.5.5 bower_components/core-focusable
└── polymer#0.5.5

core-a11y-keys#0.5.5 bower_components/core-a11y-keys
└── polymer#0.5.5

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

core-icons#0.5.5 bower_components/core-icons
├── core-icon#0.5.5
├── core-iconset-svg#0.5.5
└── polymer#0.5.5

core-iconset#0.5.5 bower_components/core-iconset
├── core-icon#0.5.5
├── core-meta#0.5.5
└── polymer#0.5.5

font-roboto#0.5.5 bower_components/font-roboto

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

core-meta#0.5.5 bower_components/core-meta
└── polymer#0.5.5

core-iconset-svg#0.5.5 bower_components/core-iconset-svg
├── core-iconset#0.5.5
└── polymer#0.5.5

webcomponentsjs#0.5.5 bower_components/webcomponentsjs
(cli-extra)davidmaxwaterman@localhost:~/tmp$ 

[nevir]

None of our components are registered via the bower registry - the Polymer/paper-button identifier is a bower shorthand for git://github.com/Polymer/paper-button.git

Are you behind a proxy or something that might block github or ssh? Also, can you post the entire output from bower?

[Nevraeka]

That explains my search issue. What are the reasons I might not register a Polymer element I create? Thank you

[nevir]

You should feel free to register your own elements; definitely aids in discoverability!

One of our troubles is that we've given our elements pretty generic names (particularly core-*). We don't want to muddy up the bower registry with those, and it's rather confusing if the git repo names (and, by convention, bower package names) don't line up

[Nevraeka]

There you go...thinking of the greater good again ...😜 that's a good point on 'muddying' the waters though

[nevir]

Yeah :) I think that's mostly a problem that's exclusive to the core-* and paper-* elements, so I wouldn't worry too much!

[xtinacosta]

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

[Nevraeka]

Another issue crushed. Thanks @xtinacosta for closing this. As time goes on I am liking Bower less and less.