I've been getting the following warnings lately whenever I run any npm script:
npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v12.4.0
npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version.
npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.
npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/
It says that I should upgrade to a newer version, but v12.4 is the newest version. Even though the scripts run fine, I think there's no guarantee and something might break at any moment.
I've also tried updating npm in case there's a newer version using npm install npm -g but got the error:
npm ERR! path /usr/local/Cellar/node/12.4.0/lib/node_modules/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/Cellar/node/12.4.0/lib/node_modules/npm'
npm ERR! [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/Cellar/node/12.4.0/lib/node_modules/npm'] {
npm ERR! stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ' +
npm ERR! "'/usr/local/Cellar/node/12.4.0/lib/node_modules/npm'",
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/Cellar/node/12.4.0/lib/node_modules/npm'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).
Then I've seen that Homebrew version of npm can't be updated using npm itself, so I tried updating through Homebrew using brew upgrade npm but got this error:
Error: npm 12.4.0 already installed
For some reason Brew mixes up nodes and npms versions.
What am I doing wrong and how can I get rid of this warning?
What worked for me:
if you try running this command "npm cache clean -f" and it doesn't work,
on your windows machine(mine is windows 10)
access the "npm" and "npm-cache" folders in this location "~\AppData\Roaming\"
delete these two folders "npm" and "npm-cache".
go to your windows search bar and search for Node, right click to open file location, run the uninstaller to uninstall NodeJs.
then visit nodejs.org and download and install node again, if you've already downloaded it, visit the folder where you downloaded it to reinstall it.
after installation, check your version of npm by typing "npm -v" on your command terminal to see the new updated version of npm installed on your machine.
now you're all set, Happy coding.
Seems like you messed up with permissions in /usr/local.
Here is how to fix that:
Fix /usr/local permissions:
sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` /usr/local
Clean npm cache and uninstall it:
npm cache clean -f
npm -g uninstall npm
Reinstall node (with npm)
brew reinstall node
Upgrade npm:
npm -g i npm
That should bring npm#6.9.2.
You should avoid using sudo while installing software with brew or npm, that could cause issues like this.
If you have nvm you may have an issue in which your node version installed at a certain version didn't match.
For example, I accidentally used: npm i -g node --force resulting in my nvm v12.21.0 to point to v16.5.0 (the latest version of node at that time directly downloadable).
To solve: I ran:
Just for good measure brew uninstall nvm
brew install nvm.
nvm uninstall 12.21
nvm install 12.21
Just for good measure I ran npm i -g npm resulting in the latest version of npm installed on that virtual node.
After installing within some repo (using npm i) you may also want to check your: ~/.npmrc.
email=myemail#company.com
registry=https://artifactory.company.com/npm/npm/
always-auth=true
user-agent=npm/6.14.11 node/v12.21.0 darwin x64
_authToken=siofjwoirgiowrgnioaenrvoianeoiio32noi23nio23nio23nio
It should look something like this: (or you might not have any of that.
Had the same issue with Debian 10 (buster) when I tried installing the npm and node.js. They were incompatible and wouldn't update. This was what I found works for me.
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
The nodejs package was installed at a different path and I manually deleted the old package (in /usr/bin/) and added a symlink to point to the new one (in /usr/local/bin).
sudo rm /usr/bin/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/node /usr/bin/node
This is the initial printouts from running the commands. The npm version updates from 5.8.0 to 8.1.2. But the nodejs version stayed at 10.24.0 even after reboot with hash -r.
None of the answers here worked. I had to delete the npm and npm-cache folders, then reinstall npm. Details here: npm does not support Node.js v12.18.3
After step 4 posted by Styx, and if node claims installation fo a newer version but npm -v keeps showing outdated version
Code for Mac and node installed with brew:
cd /usr/local/bin/
mv npm npm-backup
mv npx npx-backup
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/node/14.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js /usr/local/bin/npm
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/node/14.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js /usr/local/bin/npx
npm -version
6.14.5
I hit this issue and the steps above didn't work for me. I think it can happen if you try to upgrade Node or NPM without updating the other also. At least I think that's what happened to me.
I was trying to create a new Angular project and I had a very old version on my machine. I got an error to upgrade Node, so I bumped it to the latest version. After that I got the error running any npm command.
I resolved it simply by going to:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Getting the latest version and installing that in a pkg file (mac). After install was complete I was able to run everything. I'm guessing it worked because the versions of each mismatched, so one wouldn't run without the other being downgraded.
I also tried the brew option but I was getting other issues. My corporate machine sometimes blocks installations in that route, so it might work for others.
For Windows, this was driving me crazy, and all of the above solutions were not working, I would still get the old version of node showing for node -v.
For me simply killing the terminal window and starting it again resolved the issue. No amount of cache clearing worked until this. I know it sounds dumb, but that's what resolved this for me in the end. Hope this helps someone else not lose hours farting around with this.
I've have this issue in npm -v package,so you have to easy step in follow of solve this problem.
npm use stable
nvm use stable
nvm cache clear
nvm install stable --default
you can closed the terminal then check the `npm --version
Looks like a permission issue. Try with sudo
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and install node + npm. I know that I can't run npm command without sudo. Then I change my directory and give it permission that provide from this link https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions .
But when I try to run npm install npm#latest -g, npm will update the user-permission-given npm version, so when I run npm -v it will actually show me the version of root-permission npm not the user-permission-given npm. I want to know if I can change my npm global path to the permission given npm or there's another solution?
nb: I try to run root-permission npm (I delete user-permission npm folder from PATH) to install latest npm version, but it install latest npm with root-permission to my user-permission npm directory, which is give me more problem.
Whenever I try to execute npm install or npm i, I get this error:
npm ERR! code MODULE_NOT_FOUND
npm ERR! Cannot find module 'json-parse-helpfulerror'
I cannot update NPM through npm install npm -g or npm i npm -g, becuase it produces the same error. My computer was very low on space, and I have a feeling it might have deleted one of NPM's dependenices. The actual npm command works though.
Is there any way to fix this?
Reinstalling npm will fix the issue.
curl -L https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
If you're on Windows and you have a broken installation, the easiest thing to do is to reinstall node from the official installer.
You can also try clearing the cache
npm cache clean
Here are the steps I did to set up my project:
$ git clone ssh:<project>
$ cd <project>
$ nvm install 5.0
$ nvm use 5.0
I then check my node version and it appears to be correct: v5.0.0.
$ npm install
$ npm install -g react-native-cli
This all seems to go according to plan, and locally, it gives me a tree with all the correct dependencies.
When I do npm list --depth=0 -g, I get expected results.
├── npm#3.3.6
└── react-native-cli#1.0.0
So I try to run the npm start script, which is react-native start. However, whenever I try to run it, I get the following basic error:
Looks like you installed react-native globally, maybe you meant react-native-cli?
To fix the issue, run:
npm uninstall -g react-native
npm install -g react-native-cli
I've tried just about everything I can think of, down to uninstalling node and nvm completely and starting from scratch.
What is the solution to this problem?
This upcoming error message is not very helpful. Besides your npm installation issue I found also an npm start doesn't work after upgrade to 0.15.0 bugfixing issue with the same error message.
First of all you should check the symbolic link shown after npm install:
$ npm install -g react-native-cli
/usr/local/bin/react-native -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
Check if the linked file exists:
ls /usr/local/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
If not, check your npm path settings with
npm config list
or directly in ~/.npmrc
In my case I had a wrong prefix in ~/.npmrc, which I've deleted completely. As the npm ERR! message shows after another npm install -g react-native-cli, it came up with:
npm ERR! Refusing to delete /usr/local/bin/react-native: ../lib/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/wrong-react-native.js symlink target is not controlled by npm /usr/local
npm ERR! File exists: /usr/local/bin/react-native
npm ERR! Move it away, and try again.
Look at the indicated 'wrong-react-native.js' filename at the end.
Delete that link, do a npm update and try npm install -g react-native-cli again.
Worked on MacOS X. npm installed with homebrew
I'm starting Learn to Build Modern Web Apps with the AngularJS Tutorial and running into issues very early.
I have node installed:
/path/ang-news node -v
v0.10.26
I was using NPM earlier but was running into trouble with Yeoman. I've repeated these steps a while back but Grunt stopped working so I started fresh.
I ran:
$ sudo npm install -g generator-angular
and all the dependencies were installing until I received:
npm WARN package.json mongo#0.1.0 No repository field.
npm ERR! peerinvalid The package generator-karma does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer generator-angular#0.9.1 wants generator-karma#>=0.8.2
I then tried updating:
$ npm update -g
I should have run this as an administrator. I received tons of error messages, this seemed most pertinent:
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! System Darwin 13.1.0
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "update" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /path/ang-news
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.26
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.3
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Then I tried uninstalling generator-karma and starting fresh:
$ sudo npm uninstall -g generator-karma
but received:
sudo: npm: command not found
$ npm -v
-bash: /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory
My first question is: Why did NPM suddenly disappear?
[EDIT: Kudos to #try-catch-finally to pointing out the havoc that ensues when switching between normal user and sudo when issuing commands. It turns out that I messed up my user environment and NPM was no longer installed.]
My understanding is that NPM is installed when you install Node, so my second question is: How do I reinstall just NPM? I'd prefer not to have to reinstall Node from the beginning.
[EDIT: Kudos to #hawk and #try-catch-finally - it doesn't appear that installing NPM alone is an option, but there are easy ways to reinstall both.]
If you have a working node, you can re-install npm
curl -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
Unfortunately npm update -g does not do what anybody expects. Fixing this is on the npm roadmap, but it's going to take a while.
You almost never need to install a package globally, unless (like generator-angular or grunt-cli) you want to use that package as a command.
Just in case you've done this with brew, I recommend this article on github. Will save you a lot of time.
https://gist.github.com/DanHerbert/9520689
Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users
Run the following commands to remove all existing global npm modules, uninstall node & npm, re-install node with the right defaults, install npm as its own pacakge, and configure the location for global npm modules to be installed.
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules
brew uninstall node
brew install node --without-npm
echo prefix=~/.node >> ~/.npmrc
curl -L https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh
Node and npm should be correctly installed at this point. The final step is to add ~/.node/bin to your PATH so commands you install globally are usable. I added this line to my ~/.path script, which gets run via ~/.bash_profile. Run the following line as is.
export PATH="$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH"
I met the exactly same problem after execute command to install the npm with latest version on redhat 7.1:
npm install npm#latest -g
after some tries i found the solution:
yum reinstall npm
I hope this could help redhat/centos users.