Yeoman is installed in the root folder, how to change it?

Question

ubuntu

The question is this: I decided to try to try to work with the yeoman scaffolding tool. I do the installation through the terminal: first globally

$ npm install -gyo

next generator:

$ npm install -g generator-gulp-webapp

and at the end I create a new folder in which I deploy the project:

$ cd project mkdir yeoman cd yeoman
$ yo gulp-webapp

but here's the problem: the project is not deployed to the folder created by yeoman, but for some reason to the root folder. I can't figure out what's wrong and why? Before this installation, everything else was always put in the right place.
PS System Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

The problem has proven to be quite popular, regardless of the operating system. When creating a new project and installing yeoman into it with the yo command, an error occurred, the system did not see .yo-rc.json in the required directory, and by default accepted the .yo-rc.json that was globally installed with yeoman. The solution to the problem is as follows: when creating a project folder and initializing yo in it, you need to create an empty .yo-rc.json file ( {} ) in the folder and after that yeoman will successfully appear in the required folder.