gulp-notify: [Error in notifier] Error in plugin 'gulp-notify' not found: notify-send

Same discussion here: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/l5-homestead-and-elixir-notifications

If you want to get notifications on your host machine try this: http://www.stepquick.net/blog/2014/09/08/use-gulp-notify-with-terminal-notifier

otherwise if you fire the gulp task on your host machine you should get this messages if you installed gulp and the dependencies on your host machine.

There is no real solution over there.

@jefferyway, is there a way to disable notifications?

From the VM, this worked for me:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:izx/askubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

@Bondacom this works. There is no need for adding the PPA, though. libnotify-bin comes from ubuntu's own repo.

I found the combination of installing libnotify-bin on homestead, and using the vagrant-notify was required for using homestead, at least for me. I may need to update the tutorial though, it appears the message isn't reflected anymore, but everything else seems right.

@Stepquick I did that, and now I get a notification, but the notification message is empty. Is that what you mean, "the message isn't reflected"?

I tried running gulp from the host machine (Linux Mint 17.1 KDE) instead of the Homestead VM, and I get the same result - a notification with the title: "Green!" but no message at all.

I'm on ubuntu and I have the same issue. I got only Laravel logo and Laravel Elixir without any red, green and message.

@rene You can disable notifications by export DISABLE_NOTIFIER=true. https://github.com/mikaelbr/gulp-notify#disable-gulp-notify

@Stepquick @dusty @Sithu I've submitted a new issue. If someone have screenshots on other environment, please make a comment on github. https://github.com/laravel/elixir/issues/59

"sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin" did the trick for me

@danzz That will clear up the gulp-notify error, but wont help with the empty Elixir message many of us are experiencing.

Installing libnotify-bin solved it for me for 1 run, then after that it started erroring again, not to mention that it never gave me any notifications on local machine, even with terminal-notifier installed.

For anyone else having this and wants to stop gulp-notify from running in the first place, simply add the following line as Line 1 on your gulpfile.js

process.env.DISABLE_NOTIFIER = true;

I found a solution for the empty notice problem. Simply update Elixir and it should work.

@rene

This is not a Problem .

you don't have gulp-notify so the message don't "revised" .

Just ignore this error. (This is not a Problem at all)

Installing libnotify-bin did the trick for me, too.

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

I was getting the following output when running gulp:

[USER html]$ sudo gulp
[13:39:55] Using gulpfile /var/www/html/gulpfile.js
[13:39:55] Starting 'default'...
[13:39:55] Starting 'less'...
[13:39:55] Running Less: resources/assets/less/app.less
[13:39:56] Finished 'default' after 512 ms
[13:39:58] gulp-notify: [Laravel Elixir] Less Compiled!
[13:39:58] Finished 'less' after 2.49 s
[13:39:58] gulp-notify: [Error in notifier] Error in plugin 'gulp-notify'
not found: notify-send

On Centos running the following command did the trick for me.

sudo yum install libnotify

Example output:

[USER html]$ gulp
[13:40:50] Using gulpfile /var/www/html/gulpfile.js
[13:40:50] Starting 'default'...
[13:40:50] Starting 'less'...
[13:40:50] Running Less: resources/assets/less/app.less
[13:40:50] Finished 'default' after 509 ms
[13:40:52] gulp-notify: [Laravel Elixir] Less Compiled!
[13:40:52] Finished 'less' after 2.49 s

I struggled to get the VM sending notify messages to the OS/X host machine notification center. So in the end, I ran gulp watch from the host OS/X not from the VM. This has the added benefit of running much faster than on the VM.

Two small things you need to do on OS/X:

1. Install node on your OS/X
2. The node-module, laravel-elixir, depends on gulp-sass. In turn, gulp-sass depends on node-sass. Node-sass, when installed, runs a postinstall script that detects your system OS and makes some modifications.

To make this work for you, just run: npm rebuild node-sass

Spin up a terminal, cd to your source directory and run gulp watch

All your notifications should go straight to the OS/X notification centre. No need to install any plugins or anything.

Just sayin....works for me. Should work for others (on OS/X)...

Installing libnotify-bin solved it for me also.

@lkoenigsberger the second link returns 404

also installing global helped ... i.e. npm install gulp -g did the trick for me

You can also run gulp with --silent to ignore notifications