Npm install cannot find module 'semver'

Question

I can\'t use npm install using the command prompt in NodeJS. I\'m getting these errors when running npm install:

module.js:339
             


        

Answer 1

For me, this happened after I installed yarn globally. To resolve this issue, install npm using yarn and done.

yarn global add npm

Answer 2

As noted by anonymous(?) at DeveloperReference.com, the steps below resolved the "cannot find module 'semver'" for me when running npm -install:

*"I followed These steps and it solved my issue uninstall Node.js

1. Remove the content of the following folders
   • C:\Users\ {username} \AppData\Roaming\npm-cache
   • C:\Users\ {username\ \AppData\Roaming\npm
2. C:\Program Files\nodejs Then again install Node from https://nodejs.org/en/"*

https://html.developreference.com/article/12253101/Cannot+find+module+%27semver%27+When+installing+Npm

Answer 3

Having just encountered this on Arch Linux 4.13.3, I solved the issue by simply reinstalling semver:

pacman -S semver

Answer 4

For me, it happened while upgrading to gulp 4 from gulp 3 in my project. So, when I run "gulp watch" command, it was throwing me same error.

It's probably due to version mismatch as compared to my globally installed gulp.

So, either upgrading gulp with "-g" global flag would help, or else I followed this below

However, I used "./node_modules/.bin/gulp watch" in my project. This ensures that all the dependencies that gulp needs are taken from node_modules only.

Answer 5

I had the same issue installing on AWS Linux. I had to install it with sudo. So to get around this I followed step 3 from this article (making sure to get the latest version of node)

https://www.hostingadvice.com/how-to/update-node-js-latest-version/

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/vx.x.x/node-vx.x.x-linux-x64.tar.xz
tar -C /home/aUser/node --strip-components 1 -xJf node-vx.x.x-linux.x64.tar.xz

But installed it to the user's home directory /home/aUser/node. Then added that path to my PATH.

export PATH=/home/aUser/node/bin:$PATH

After that I was able to do an npm install with no issues.

Answer 6

I had this too, after running brew install yarn yesterday. At least, everything was fine up until then.

I ran rm -rf node_modules and tried to reinstall, but no npm command was working.

In the end I took the rather simple step of reinstalling Node via the official Node installer for Mac OS X.

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Everything is fine now. Just went back to the directory, ran npm install and it's done the trick.