# Gulp error on ionic setup sass

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/gulp-error-on-ionic-setup-sass/32140>\
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**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/gulp-error-on-ionic-setup-sass/32140 "2015-09-10T17:46:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![LouisR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@LouisR](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/LouisR)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/gulp-error-on-ionic-setup-sass/32140/1 "2015-09-10T17:46:06Z")

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Hi

please can you help me with this ?

Thanks a lot (I am newbie)

```
$ ionic setup sass
npmnpm WARN package.json snowboard@1.0.0 No README data
npm WARN prefer global ionic@1.6.4 should be installed with -g

Successful npm install
Updated /home/louisro/Documents/mobileApps/BoardLine/webapp_et_new_PGBuildversion/www/index.html <link href> references to sass compiled css

Ionic project ready to use Sass!
 * Customize the app using scss/ionic.app.scss
 * Run ionic serve to start a local dev server and watch/compile Sass to CSS

[19:44:40] Using gulpfile ~/Documents/mobileApps/BoardLine/webapp_et_new_PGBuildversion/gulpfile.js
[19:44:40] Starting 'sass'...

stream.js:94
      throw er; // Unhandled stream error in pipe.
            ^
Error: source string:468: error: error reading values after (

Error running gulp sass

Exception with (CLI v1.6.4)

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 5.3.1
Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local: Local version 3.9.0
Ionic Version: 1.0.0-beta.13
Ionic CLI Version: 1.6.4
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.3.8
OS: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 
Node Version: v0.12.7
```