npm not working after clearing cache

Question

Before clearing cache

npm cache clear

npm is working fine. After clearing cache, it is not working. The error log below suggest problem wi

Answer 1

Try npm cache clean --force if it doesn't work then manually delete %appdata%\npm-cache folder.

and install npm install npm@latest -g

It worked for me.

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Answer 2

I solved this issue by running cmd as an administrator. before that, I was trying to run in vs code.

run it in Power Shell or Cmd with administrative privilege. I hope that it will help.

npm install –g @angular/cli@latest

Answer 3

It should be

npm cache clean  

See https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/cache.html

Answer 4

I try to

npm cache clean 

But npm said newer version on npm (> 5) has self healing Mechanism and every thing i need to do for checking npm is use verify

npm cache verify

npm message :

The npm cache self-heals from corruption issues and data extracted from the cache is guaranteed to be valid. 

If you want to make sure everything is consistent, use 'npm cache verify' instead.

but for forcing npm use this:

npm cache clean --force

Answer 5

Try npm cache clean --force if it doesn't work then manually delete %appdata%\npm-cache folder.

It worked for me.