Npm Please try using this command again as root/administrator

Question

I\'ve been desperately trying to install modules using node.js but it always fails getting packages with npm.

I logged in as Administrator and used powershell/cmd wi

Answer 1

Deleting the global npm-cache and/or running my cmd line as admin did not work for me. Also, as of npm version 5.x.x, it supposedly recovers from cache corruption by itself.

This did work:

1. Deleted the node_modules folder in my current project.

2. Deleted the package-lock.json in my current project

3. Installed the new package. In my case: npm install bootstrap@next --save

4. Ran npm install for my current project.

Everything now works. In general, nuking node_modules and package-lock.json usually fix these "no apparent reason" bugs for me.

EDIT

I just had the same problem again. But I noticed that everything was installed correctly even though it threw the error after I had followed the steps outlined above. So I could just run ng serve (for Angular), and everything worked.

This sure is a weird error...