Npm install cannot find module semver

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I can t use npm install using the command prompt in NodeJS  I m getting these errors when running npm install   module js 339     throw err        Error  Cannot find module  semver      at Function Module  resolveFilename  module js 337 15      at Function Module  load  module js 287 25      at Module require  module js 366 17      at require  module js 385 17      at Object  lt anonymous gt   C  Users admin AppData Roaming npm node modules npm l ib config defaults js 6 14      at Module  compile  module js 435 26      at Object Module  extensions  js  module js 442 10      at Module load  module js 356 32      at Function Module  load  module js 311 12      at Module require  module js 366 17

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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.

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I was getting same issue but solve this issue with an below command  npm install semver

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I faced this issues while running project on higher version of cli  To solve this issue you can simply comment out  angular-devkit build-angular module and again you have to reinstall it through      npm install  angular-devkit build-angular --save

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I got same error and I solved it  delete package-lock json file and node modules folder then npm install

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I finally figured this out  Yes  you have to uninstall delete all files and reinstall  BUT SOME OF THE FILE PATHS ARE TOO LONG TO DELETE DURING THE UNINSTALL PROCESS   The file paths are so long in Node that they may not be able to be deleted   You have to rename the file paths   After uninstalling Node  use Command Prompt  navigate to     Appdata roaming   use the path from the error message    Try to delete the folder with del npm  Then  if it doesn t allow you to delete a folder  start renaming the folders in the file path in the next error message to  a  or something short  You may have to do this for multiple folders along the path   Then you should be able to delete  Then reinstall node and it should work

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On MS Windows  the solution is to remove  APPDATA  npm and reinstall node

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On Ubuntu  if you would rather manage Node through the default repositories using apt  it s best to install both nodejs and npm this way  It s very likely that the version of npm you are using is expecting semver in a specific place that is not aligned with the version of Node JS you have installed  If there is only one version of nodejs and only one version of npm  and they are both installed using the default repositories  this should work perfectly  Here is my best guidance for getting Node and npm working using the main Ubuntu repositories   sudo apt-get purge nodejs --auto-remove and sudo apt-get purge npm --auto-remove whereis node  remove all the versions of node  one at a time  Repeat until this command returns a blank after node   sudo apt-get install nodejs node --version  should return     no such file or directory nodejs --version  should return v1x x x  This is the version installed by apt  It will probably be less recent that the latest version available on the Node JS website  sudo apt-get install npm npm --version  it will use the nodejs installed by apt and work correctly

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sudo rm -rf  usr local bin npm  usr local share man man1 node     npm sudo rm -rf  usr local lib node  sudo rm -rf  usr local bin node  sudo rm -rf  usr local include node   sudo apt-get purge nodejs npm sudo apt autoremove  Then install node and npm

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Just check your preinstall scripts if you have one  Sometimes to restrict the versions of node and npm one needs to run a project   If that s the case you need to install semver manually via npm install -g semver

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Having just encountered this on Arch Linux 4 13 3  I solved the issue by simply reinstalling semver   pacman -S semver

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I faced with same trouble after brew installs yarn on my MacOs Sierra 10 12 6   And the first try of installation fall after brew update self with a message   Homebrew must be run under Ruby 2 3  You re running 2 0 0   RuntimeError    So I re-run it    So I use n manager to reinstall npm    switch to another node version  for my case to 8 0  by  n  command with empty parameters  or install new by  n x x x  where x x x the node version number  i need 6 9 1  delete working version by  n rm x x x  where x x x the node version number  use sudo if need install working version by  n x x x  where x x x the node version number  use sudo if need switch by to the working version of node   see first step for reference    I think the trouble can be caused that node was installed under sudo for case

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This worked for me on Ubuntu  latest version dated Oct 2020  I had to first get code from the bash source  curl -sL https   deb nodesource com setup 14 x   sudo -E bash -  This got the latest version of node which updated my libraries and got rid of the  semver  error

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Just remove the  node modules folder and try again      You can use npm rm to remove it   You can also check this issue on GitHub  To be more specific about unnistal  try to follow this      Uninstalling      So sad to see you go       sudo npm uninstall npm -g Or  if that fails       sudo make uninstall More Severe Uninstalling      Usually  the above instructions are sufficient  That will remove npm    but leave behind anything you ve installed       If you would like to remove all the packages that you have installed    then you can use the npm ls command to find them  and then npm rm to   remove them       To remove cruft left behind by npm 0 x  you can use the included   clean-old sh script file  You can run it conveniently like this       npm explore npm -g -- sh scripts clean-old sh npm uses two   configuration files  one for per-user configs  and another for global    every-user  configs  You can view them by doing       npm config get userconfig     defaults to    npmrc npm config get   globalconfig   defaults to  usr local etc npmrc Uninstalling npm does   not remove configuration files by default  You must remove them   yourself manually if you want them gone  Note that this means that   future npm installs will not remember the settings that you have   chosen

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In my case on macOS 10 13 6   when I executed the following command  npm install -g react-native-cli   I got this error   Error  Cannot find module  semver      at Function Module  resolveFilename  internal modules cjs loader js 636 15      at Function Module  load  internal modules cjs loader js 562 25      at Module require  internal modules cjs loader js 690 17      at require  internal modules cjs helpers js 25 18      at Object  lt anonymous gt    usr local lib node modules npm lib utils unsupported js 2 14      at Module  compile  internal modules cjs loader js 776 30      at Object Module  extensions  js  internal modules cjs loader js 787 10      at Module load  internal modules cjs loader js 653 32      at tryModuleLoad  internal modules cjs loader js 593 12      at Function Module  load  internal modules cjs loader js 585 3    The error got resolved after executing the command  yarn global add npm   proposed by  Ashoor

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Actually  it is taking the reference of previously stored modules   Solution Delete the npm-cache npm folder in the installation directory of nodejs  In windows  it is in C  User Username Appdata Roaming npm or npm cache   and try to install again   Same thing to do in any OS

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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

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Just make sure semver is installed  npm install -g semver

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On Arch Linux what did the trick for me was   sudo pacman -Rs npm sudo pacman -S npm

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I m facing the same issue here   If this occurs right after you run brew install yarn try running yarn global add npm and voil   - fixed

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On Windows  downloading Node s MSI again and doing a  Repair  worked for me

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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

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I had the same error  npm uninstall npm -g  rm -rf node modules didn t help me  because when I tried I was getting Error  Cannot find module  semver   But I solve my problem with these steps  this will delete other global modules you may be using     sudo rm -rf  usr local lib node modules sudo rm -rf    npm brew uninstall --force node brew install node   Hope this will help those who are getting a similar problem

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if you are in Linux server exit from the server and re ssh

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I had the same issue but it was caused by a broken package-lock json file   Deleting package-lock json and running npm install again fixed it for me

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just remove your node modules rm -rf node modules  than yarn  or npm install

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i was getting an error saying Permission Denied after running any  ng  command  ng --version   I googled for a while and tried clearing npm cache npm cache verify  uninstalling my global angular cli  npm uninstall -g  angular cli  and reinstalling Angular cli  npm install -g  angular cli  etc   but it would give an error say its already installed  but the node modules folder here wouldn t have any angular folder   reinstalled node even then restarted my computer  ANSWER  Finally I found that the ng cmd and ng ps1 files in C  Users JaGoodwin AppData Roaming npm  here were still there  in npm folder    even though I did npm uninstall -g  angular cli  those files were causing ng  angular cli  to think it was still installed  i deleted those files then npm install -g  angular cli 8 3 29  version i need  I then removed my projects node modules and then ran npm install and now can run my angular project using ng serve   C  Users JaGoodwin AppData Roaming npm  Find this by folder searching  APPDATA  in your windows search bar

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Start fresh  brew uninstall --force node brew install node

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In my case  simply re-running brew install yarn fixed the problem

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

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Faced this issue when I ran npm install using a lower version of node  Then later when I upgraded to latest version of node and ran gulp  it has shown this error   To resolve  deleted node modules and re-ran npm install  Then gulp ran fine

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