How to fix timeout for packages on `npm install`?

Question

When I run npm install it seems to work fine until part way installing packages. It seems to have no problem with the first half, but then after a while it will

Answer 1

npm cache clean --force

npm install --force

It works fine.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I solved the timeout issue by executing these commands:

rm package-lock.json
npm i

Answer 4

It might not be your case, but I had issues with a package being hosted at github with the repo url being only with git protocol (port 9418 not usually open on firewall).

Once added that to the firewall I could npm install without issues.

You can view the repository url with:

$ npm view zone.js repository.url
git://github.com/angular/angular.git

Answer 5

//npm config ls -l
// add these 2 lines in .npmrc
fetch-retry-maxtimeout = 6000000
fetch-retry-mintimeout = 1000000

//Siddharth Singh

Answer 6

If it's still relevant or maybe for other people of interest: For me it helped, deleting the package.lock file and running npm cache clean --force.