npm install error code EBUSY errono -4082

Question

I am running windows7 and have just installed the following...

c:\design_centre_dev\workspace>node -v
v5.10.1

c:\design_centre_dev\workspace>npm -v
3.8.6

I'm having issues running npm install on my node project which one of my fellow dev's says he has no trouble with and should work for me.

When I run npm install i am getting errors like...

npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\rriviere\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install"
npm ERR! node v5.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.6
npm ERR! path c:\design_centre_dev\workspace\node_modules\path-type
npm ERR! code EBUSY
npm ERR! errno -4082
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! EBUSY: resource busy or locked, rename 'c:\design_centre_dev\workspace\node_modules\path-type' -> 'c:\design_centre_dev\workspace\node_module
s\.path-type.DELETE'
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

It seems to throw these same types of errors for modules asynch,path_type and isarray and does not want to get past them.

Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?

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EDIT

Thanks for the suggestion of this thread possibly being answered somewhere else. I had a look and I believe it is a different problem. I think this because I've been investigating further today and I think the problem is that the node_modules directory which npm is creating. The permissions on that directory don't seem to be right. I think this might be an issue and probably a new thread so I'll close this one and create a new.

Answer 1

If you have open that node module file in your editor then just close the file from the editor

Or

Close Editor Software

Then Try again

Answer 2

The cause of this was windows permissions problems. My work computer did not have privilleges to do certain things. When I moved to my personal mac everything just worked.

Answer 3

I got this error when tried to uninstall/re-install a module on Win10 VM. "npm cache clean", as suggested by some, did not work. Restarting the system resolved the issue.

Answer 4

If you trying to npm install and it fails on some package(requirejs in my case) try to install it manually:

npm install requrejs@2.1.8

Sometimes you don't have permission to turn off anti-virus :)