Cannot install webpack-cli via npm

[mu88]

I'm learning JavaScript and would like to use webpack, so I've installed it via npm install --save-dev webpack without any problems.
When executing node_modules\.bin\webpack webpack.config.js, it says that I have to install webpack-cli, so I ran npm install webpack-cli -D. This command takes extremely long for fetching the metadata and fails after approximately one minute with the following error:
npm ERR! Error while executing: npm ERR! C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t ssh://git@github.com/ev1stensberg/generator.git npm ERR! npm ERR! ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection refused npm ERR! fatal: Could not read from remote repository. npm ERR! npm ERR! Please make sure you have the correct access rights npm ERR! and the repository exists. npm ERR! npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

I'm behind a corporate proxy, for sure, but I've configured the npm proxy settings and fetching other modules is not a problem. Only webpack-cli doesn't seem to work.

[andrewpmontgomery]

Same as bugs #311 #313 #314 #318 etc. All tracked under bug #161 . Hopefully will be fixed with PR #323

[mu88]

Thanks for your quick reply! So is there any way for me to use webpack via CLI right now? Do I have to install a previous version of webpack which does not rely on webpack-cli?

[andrewpmontgomery]

Just install webpack-cli 2.0.9 for now.

[dhruvdutt]

@mu88 You can use 2.0.9 for now but beware of some other issues which were fixed in 2.0.10. Check the changelog to know more.

Also, you can close this issue since we're already tracking it in #161. Thanks for reporting.

[mu88]

Thank you, guys!

[ematipico]

Duplicate of #161