npm not working - read ECONNRESET

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I m having a problem with npm  I cant install anything  Here is the error messages   C  Windows system32 gt npm install -g yo npm http GET https   registry npmjs org yo npm http GET https   registry npmjs org yo npm http GET https   registry npmjs org yo npm ERR  network read ECONNRESET npm ERR  network This is most likely not a problem with npm itself npm ERR  network and is related to network connectivity  npm ERR  network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settin gs  npm ERR  network npm ERR  network If you are behind a proxy  please make sure that the npm ERR  network  proxy  config is set properly   See   npm help config   npm ERR  System Windows NT 6 2 9200 npm ERR  command  C   Program Files  nodejs    node exe   C   Program Files  nod ejs  node modules  npm  bin  npm-cli js   install   -g   yo  npm ERR  cwd C  Windows system32 npm ERR  node -v v0 10 17 npm ERR  npm -v 1 3 8 npm ERR  syscall read npm ERR  code ECONNRESET npm ERR  errno ECONNRESET npm ERR  npm ERR  Additional logging details can be found in  npm ERR      C  Windows system32 npm-debug log npm ERR  not ok code 0   Any idea why is this  Here are my network settings and it seems I dont have any proxy configured  I also disabled all the firewalls

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This can be caused by installing anything with npm using sudo -- this causes the files in the cache to be owned by root, resulting in this problem. You can fix it by running:

sudo rm -rf ~/.npm

to remove the cache. Then try whatever you were doing again, making sure you never use sudo along with npm (or the problem may come back).

Lots more information: npm throws error without sudo

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This is what worked for me   proxy   http   1 1 1 1 3128  https proxy   http   1 1 1 1 3128  strict-ssl   false ca   null registry   http   registry npmjs org    Answer found here  https   fak3r com 2015 07 31 howto-use-npm-behind-a-corporate-proxy

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Please use this           npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org

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Solution 1  MAC   LINUX run this command with sudo sudo npm install -g yo  Windows run cmd as administrator and then run this command again Solution 2  run this command and then try npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org

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I had the same problem on my local home network without proxy  Other answers in this thread didn t work for me  What I ended up doing was using yarn which can be used interchangeably with npm   yarn add   To this day I don t know why my npm still don t work  I know for sure that it s a problem with my Wi-Fi  because when I connect to LTE internet broadcasted from my smartphone npm install works again  It has probably something to do with router settings  problems started when I upgraded my internet speed and ISP worker replaced my old router with a new one

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Just in case   simply trying one more time worked for me  It could just be a temporary connection issue

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This is an old question  but anyway   I had this issue  when I was trying to deploy to heroku  and the fix that worked for me was to update the npm version that was used  I had version 2 x x and I updated to 3 x x

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In case this helps anyone who was in my situation  I recently installed Fiddler  which  unbeknownst to me  added a network proxy through 127 0 0 1 8866  I went into my Ubuntu network settings  clicked into the  quot Network Proxy quot  settings  and disabled it  and then all was back to normal  So in general  check to make sure you haven t got a network proxy set up due to a side-effect of something else you were doing

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use   npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org    so that npm requests for http url instead of https   and then try the same npm install command

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I had the same problem when trying to run npm on system emulated in Oracle VirtualBox  I resolved it by adding Google DNS address in Network Adapter properties    Network Adapter properties   IPv4 properties   Preferred DNS address  8 8 8 8

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I had the same issue but none of these solutions worked correctly  Finally  I have installed packages via yarn  which is npm-compatible  As per official website      Migrating from npm should be a fairly easy process for most users    Yarn can consume the same package json format as npm  and can install   any package from the npm registry    Just install the yarn and then then  run the install by using the following command  the equivalent to npm install in yarn   yarn install   Read more at   Yarn  Migrating from npm

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I did not want to switch to http for the registry  what worked for me was downgrading from the latest Node version to the LTS version  as of now  6 x

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I had the problem with npm throwing this error   So basically whenever error was thrown i either used manual install from git or waited and installed specified version like   npm install resolve  1 1 6   when running alone   npm install resolve   didn t worked   I updated node js from 7 to 8 and npm install goes smoothly   I think that maybe the version 7 caused this problem since  luschn downgraded to 6 so he didn t use 7 too   Maybe the registry itself is returning errors without showing problems on their status pages because after some time i could install this one breaking package and then proceed with npm install to install the rest

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You may also need to specify the proxy server port  in some environments the system settings for proxy are not enough for npm to work       npm config set proxy  http   your-proxy com 80

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Our company firewall will stop installing node hence connect to the personal network and install  it worked for me

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Restarting my PC made it worked

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At work  i had to load up my browser and browse a webpage  which authenticates me to our web-filter    Then I retried the command and it worked successfully

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Remove your proxy settings at home and switch on at Office networks  This may be irritating  But It worked for me   npm config set proxy http   xxx xxx xxx 4 8080    npm config set https-proxy http   xxx xxx xxx 4 8080   and  npm config rm proxy    npm config rm https-proxy

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I had the same issue in windows while installing any package from npm  Fixed that with -    open command prompt as administrator and run these 3 commands      1  npm config rm proxy  2  npm config rm https-proxy  3   npm install npm latest -g  FOR MAC   LINUX 1  sudo npm config rm proxy  2  sudo npm config rm https-proxy  3  sudo npm install npm latest -g  Basically this was version isuue with npm   Please check its worrking

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I ve tried almost all methods posted here and in other pages but didn t work  Here are the commands I ve executed in order  which I encourage you to try because it worked for many people  but not me       npm config rm proxy npm config rm https-proxy npm config set https-proxy https   username password proxy company com 6050  npm config set proxy http   username password proxy company com 6050 npm config set registry http   registry npmjs org    And then trying to install the package npm install -g express  but it failed     However  when I tried to run npm install npm latest -g it miraculously executed and installed fine  Then running npm install -g express again worked perfectly fine too   TL DR  updating npm to the latest version solved the issue  currently 6 0 1

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You may also encounter this error if you have a saved bearer token that is now invalid  I ve encountered this when using a private repo where the accounts were wiped and reset  invalidating the tokens  Although your repo may not require authentication  if you have a token from a previous login it will be passed and if it s invalid your connection will be closed    You can resolve this by either logging in again with the new user name and password  or presumably by simply logging out via npm

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If you re using Windows you should follow up on Advanced System Settings to check the env vars declared over there  you should notice that the proxy configuration may lie within environment variables  like in the picture below      So if your proxy server is not available or is blocking traffic from npm you might notice the aforementioned error in this topic  Maybe you don t need any proxy at all  in this case  just remove this HTTP PROXY env variables   I had turned all proxy configurations off in my Windows and npm settings  however  npm was still getting timeout and connection errors while downloading resources  then I figured out there was still a proxy configuration left on env variables  which was causing all the trouble

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npm config rm proxy  npm config rm https-proxy  works for me

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I found  npm config edit  to be more useful to update the entries for https-proxy  proxy  registry  I did something like this   npm config list npm config edit  opens in vi   Edit or set the config entries for https-proxy  proxy  registry npm install

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npm config set https-proxy  http   username password proxy-url proxy-port  worked for me

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The three thing to make npm working well inside the proxy network    This set npm registry   By default it may take https      npm config set registry  http   registry npmjs org     Second is two set proxy in your system   If your organization use proxy or you      npm config set proxy  http   username password proxy-url proxy-port       npm config set https-proxy    http   username password proxy-url proxy-port    You can also check if they are set or not   by     npm config get https-proxy   for all values

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You may want to check your NPM proxy settings and perhaps remove it   npm config get proxy npm config rm proxy npm config rm https-proxy   One might expect a fresh install of NodeJS NPM would not have a proxy configured  Strangely enough  mine did come with a proxy defined  pointing to an IP and port 3128  Removing the proxy did the trick

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Remove yarn lock   package-lock json  node modules and then npm install -f   Worked for me

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