Npm cannot install packages with npm init - node.js

Question

I'm trying to install next js with command below:
$c:/Desktop/next: npm init next-app nextjs-blog
Which gave me an error
npm ERR! Could not install from "Dahal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\14636" as it does not contain a package.json file.
Note: My Users is C:/Users/Sunita Dahal but it seems to be looking inside of Dahal. But I'm able to install global packages.
reinstalling & cleaning cache doesnt work work me
Here is the complete error log:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'install',
1 verbose cli 'create-next-app#latest',
1 verbose cli '--global',
1 verbose cli '--prefix',
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Users\\Sunita',
1 verbose cli 'Dahal\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm-cache\\_npx\\14636',
1 verbose cli '--loglevel',
1 verbose cli 'error',
1 verbose cli '--json'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm#6.14.4
3 info using node#v12.16.3
4 verbose npm-session a7314bdab23f336e
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readGlobalPackageData
7 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for file:Dahal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\14636 Could not install from "Dahal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\14636" as it does not contain a package.json file.
8 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/create-next-app 167ms (from cache)
9 silly pacote tag manifest for create-next-app#latest fetched in 190ms
10 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 1ms
11 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 204ms
12 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Sunita Dahal\Desktop\next\Dahal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\14636\package.json'
13 verbose cwd C:\Users\Sunita Dahal\Desktop\next
14 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.18362
15 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "create-next-app#latest" "--global" "--prefix" "C:\\Users\\Sunita" "Dahal\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm-cache\\_npx\\14636" "--loglevel" "error" "--json"
16 verbose node v12.16.3
17 verbose npm v6.14.4
18 error code ENOLOCAL
19 error Could not install from "Dahal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\14636" as it does not contain a package.json file.
20 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
SOLUTION
Changing my cache path fixed the issue for me.
npm config set cache C:\tmp\nodejs\npm-cache --global
more at: https://github.com/zkat/npx/issues/146

Answer 1

So the command npm init will initialize a new project and generate a package.json file that contains project-related information. The command can be run anywhere. Use npm init when you want to create a new project of your own.
However, npm install, or npm i for short, will install project-related dependencies in the package.json file in an existing project directory. You can also use npm i package_name_here to install new package to your current project. The command must be run in an existing project directory with a valid package.json