I am using reactjs and am unable to install any packages using npm install
. The error message I’m getting is :
npm ERR! Cannot read property 'resolve' of undefined npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/stash/.npm/_logs/2019-03-11T10_07_30_264Z-debug.log
When I do npm install -verbose
:
npm info it worked if it ends with ok npm verb cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', npm verb cli '/usr/local/bin/npm', npm verb cli 'install', npm verb cli '-verbose' ] npm info using npm@6.7.0 npm info using node@v11.10.1 npm verb npm-session 869376d36eca27b5 npm info lifecycle proj-lite@1.0.0-alpha.6~preinstall: proj-lite@1.0.0-alpha.6 npm timing stage:loadCurrentTree Completed in 22ms npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:cloneCurrentTree Completed in 1ms npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:loadShrinkwrap Completed in 1231ms npm timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 1ms npm timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 2661ms npm verb stack TypeError: Cannot read property 'resolve' of undefined npm verb stack at regFetch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch/index.js:76:23) npm verb stack at fetchPackument (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetchers/registry/packument.js:42:10) npm verb stack at packument (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetchers/registry/packument.js:20:10) npm verb stack at getManifest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetchers/registry/manifest.js:22:10) npm verb stack at manifest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetchers/registry/manifest.js:13:10) npm verb stack at Object.manifest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetchers/registry/index.js:17:12) npm verb stack at Object.Fetcher#manifest [as manifest] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/genfun/lib/genfun.js:15:38) npm verb stack at manifest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetch.js:23:18) npm verb stack at pinflight (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/manifest.js:24:12) npm verb stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/promise-inflight/inflight.js:29:24 npm verb stack at Promise._execute (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:313:9) npm verb stack at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:483:18) npm verb stack at new Promise (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:79:10) npm verb stack at _inflight (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/promise-inflight/inflight.js:28:25) npm verb stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/promise-inflight/inflight.js:22:14 npm verb stack at tryCatcher (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) npm verb cwd /var/www/html/lite-proj/lite-proj npm verb Linux 4.4.0-142-generic npm verb argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-verbose" npm verb node v11.10.1 npm verb npm v6.7.0 npm ERR! Cannot read property 'resolve' of undefined npm verb exit [ 1, true ] npm timing npm Completed in 3862ms npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/stash/.npm/_logs/2019-03-11T10_12_15_921Z-debug.log
I am not even able to uninstall npm and reinstall it as I am getting the same error when I try to uninstall. What is the issue here and how do I fix it?
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Answer
The reason for the error was probably conflicting global packages and node versions. I uninstalled node and npm and then reinstalled them.
To remove nodejs and associated packages (like npm):
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs
Nodejs and npm will leave files in the system which may cause issues during reinstallation. I had to remove them as well.
Although it is a bad practice to remove packages manually (it may cause problems with the package manager), it helped my case. This answer shows how to remove nodejs and related files manually.
To reinstall them:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs sudo apt-get install npm