npm ERR! Refusing to delete / code EEXIST

Question

I\'m just running a simple npm install and i get this error.

npm ERR! path /Users/jasonazoulay/Desktop/fabrick.io/delegation/node_modules/@angul         


        

Answer 1

This was how I solved mine after 'googling' around...

• Navigate to the directory your node was installed in
• rename your npm.cmd and npm files
• Try run the installation again
• If successful..delete the files you renamed earlier npm and npm.cmd
• if not, :( :(

The cli commands here...in case you don't want to be renaming and stuffs

cd %ProgramFiles%\nodejs
ren npm.cmd npm2.cmd
ren npm npm2 
npm2 install npm@latest -g

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del npm2
del npm2.cmd

Rolf-schmidiger

Answer 2

I had a similar error(mine is not @angular),
resolved by deleting and reinstalling node with installer.

Answer 3

This worked for me

npm install -g --force gatsby-cli

Thanks

Answer 4

I got this problem on Linux (npm is the current latest 5.6.0), because I created a tgz archive, and I needed to --dereference some symlinks (see man tar) when creating a tgz archive (which was them copied to VM for testing). This way a lot of symlinks in node_modules/.bin also became regular files. npm says in the error message, .e.g.

npm ERR! Refusing to delete /path/to/node_modules/.bin/jest: is outside /path/to/node_modules/jest and not a link

Answer 5

I had the same problem and it turned out the problem was that a stray instance of npm was running somewhere in the background at the same time I was trying to do the install (it was Webpack's npm run serve, to be precise).

Stopping the running instance resolved the problem.

Answer 6

For windows users (specific to windows 10) this must solve the problem.

Goto this folder:

C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\

delete or rename the npm and npm-cache folders.

This has fixed my problem in Windows.