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alfirus's avatar

Npm Error

Does anyone facing problem installing or running npm in Ubuntu 18 lately?

I'm stuck to develop laravel project.

Any solution?

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Sinnbeck's avatar

Nothing that wasnt caused by myself. What errors are you getting? (Ubuntu 20.04 here but should be the same)

alfirus's avatar

Whenever I run "npm install"

loadDevDep:sass-loader → ▐ ╢████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╟ WARN engine [email protected]: wanted: {"node":">=10.14","npm":">=6"," npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 will break on node v1 4+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies. npm ERR! Linux 4.15.0-124-generic npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" npm ERR! node v8.10.0 npm ERR! npm v3.5.2 npm ERR! code EMISSINGARG

npm ERR! typeerror Error: Missing required argument #1 npm ERR! typeerror at andLogAndFinish (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch- package-metadata.js:31:3) npm ERR! typeerror at fetchPackageMetadata (/usr/share/npm/lib/f etch-package-metadata.js:51:22) npm ERR! typeerror at resolveWithNewModule (/usr/share/npm/lib/i nstall/deps.js:456:12) npm ERR! typeerror at /usr/share/npm/lib/install/deps.js:457:7 npm ERR! typeerror at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/iferr/index.js :13:50 npm ERR! typeerror at /usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata. js:37:12 npm ERR! typeerror at addRequestedAndFinish (/usr/share/npm/lib/ fetch-package-metadata.js:82:5) npm ERR! typeerror at returnAndAddMetadata (/usr/share/npm/lib/f etch-package-metadata.js:117:7) npm ERR! typeerror at pickVersionFromRegistryDocument (/usr/shar e/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:134:20) npm ERR! typeerror at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/iferr/index.js :13:50 npm ERR! typeerror This is an error with npm itself. Please report t his error at: npm ERR! typeerror http://github.com/npm/npm/issues

Sinnbeck's avatar

Sounds like you are running quite old versions of node and npm

I have

node -v
v14.15.1

npm -v
6.14.8
alfirus's avatar

Yes. Look like it.

node -v v8.10.0

npm -v 3.5.2

I tried

$ apt update $ apt upgrade

But the problem not solve. Any idea?

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