Error installing Bower (ERR! tar.unpack untar error)

Question

I get this error when trying to install Bower. Is this a bug or am I doing it wrong? I also have 4707 lines of npm-debug.log file if needed...

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Answer 1

Had this error for some time, too, and none of the solutions online worked for me. What did, however, was restarting the computer after installing a bunch of crap. :) Hope it helps somebody.

Answer 2

Please upgrade npm first then install bower

Answer 3

Happened to me as well, clear cache!

npm cache clean

Answer 4

When running the command npm install -g mup on Yosemite 10.10.5 I got this error: tar.unpack untar error...

The npm cache clean didn't fix the issue. Putting sudo in front solved the problem and my npm install was successful.

Answer 5

You can add sudo before npm install ,and it may work.