NPM npm-cli js not found when running npm

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Usually I can install a library using npm but today when installing yeoman I encountered this errors  Please help to figure out what s root cause   D  Works phonegap ionic todo gt npm install -g yo     module js 340     throw err              Error  Cannot find module  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin node modules npm bin npm-cli js   at Function Module  resolveFilename  module js 338 15  at Function Module  load  module js 280 25  at Function Module runMain  module js 497 10  at startup  node js 119 16  at node js 906 3   I looked into the folder      C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin    but don t see node modules folder as the error described   I also try to find npm-cli js and see it s actually in C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin

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I experienced this same issue when installing Node version manager (NVM) on Windows 10.

Whenever I run the command:

npm install -g yarn

I was getting the error below:

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js'

The issue was that there other components of the previous Node installations that were interfering with the Node version manager (NVM) setup.

Here's how I fixed it:

All I had to do was to go to the Control Panel of the Windows machine.

Uninstalled Node version manager (NVM) for windows. This removed every other component and directory of the previous Node installations.

Next, I did a new installation of the Node version manager (NVM)

This time when I ran the command below everything worked fine:

npm install -g yarn

That's all.

I hope this helps

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For guys still coming around this thread    install node from official site  check npm and node version to check whether installed properly  yes in a new terminal cmd   install nvm now and when prompt to whether manage current node with nvm click yes  open new cmd and run nvm on

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In addition to above I had to remove C  Users  USERNAME  AppData Roaming npm also  This helped

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I encountered the exact same problem today in a Linux server  And the reason is really simple as I didn t do make install after make and tried to directly call the generated npm  Thus the PATH and everything was a mess    So for me  the solution is just to do make install after make and run the npm under  node bin npm

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This started happening for me after I installed GoogleChrome puppeteer  the solution was to re-install npm     npm i npm latest   or    npm install npm latest

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On Windows 10     Press windows key  type edit the system environment variables then enter  Click environment variables    On the lower half of the window that opened with title Environment Variables there you will see a table titled System Variables  with two columns  the first one titled variable  Find the row with variable Path and click it  Click edit which will open a window titled Edit evironment variable   Here if you find       C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin   select it  and click edit button to your right  then edit the field to the path where you have the nodejs folder  in my case it was just shortening it to        C  Program Files nodejs   Then I closed all my cmd or powershell terminals  opened them again and npm was working

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I run into this problem when installing node9 0 0 on windows7 at the end the solution was to just remove  npm npm cmd npx npx cmd from C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin before doing this a workaround was to run C  Program Files nodejs npm so that is one way so see if you have the same problem I had

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On a Mac   I was running this out of the Maven com github eirslett Frontend Plugin when I had the same error   Eventually I had to   Install Node js via the installer download here  http   nodejs org   Delete all the node  and node modules  folders from within my maven build structure

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In my case  I was using nvm-windows 1 1 6   and I updated my nodejs version using nvm install latest  which eventually told me that nodejs and npm are installed  however when I tried to do npm install  I received     Error  Cannot find module  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin npm-cli js    upon checking nvm-windows structure  I found that C  Program Files nodejs was symlinked to  APPDATA  nvm NODE VERSION   NODE VERSION was v9 7 1 in my case  which has the folder node modules having nothing inside  caused this error  The solution was to copy the npm folder from one of my previous versions  node modules folder and paste it in  I then updated my npm with npm install npm next -g and everything started working again

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None of the other answers worked for me   Here is what I write  in a git bash shell on windows     PATH   c Program Files nodejs   PATH  npm run yeoman

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npm install -g npm  version  fixed the problem

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I encountered the same problem with node 8 5 when installed with nvm  The below solution worked for me    nvm uninstall 8 5 8 5 0 Uninstalling node v8 5 0   Error removing node v8 5 0 Manually remove C  Users Omkar AppData Roaming nvm v8 5 0     nvm install 8 5 8 5 0 Downloading node js version 8 5 0  64-bit     Complete Creating C  Users Omkar AppData Roaming nvm temp  Downloading npm version 5 3 0    Complete Installing npm v5 3 0     Installation complete  If you want to use this version  type  nvm use 8 5 0  Omkar VAST-0137 MINGW64  d code   This worked for me cause node 8 5 was not correctly installed before with nvm  I figured it out cause  npm bin npm-cli js  folders and files were not created inside node modules before

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I had the same issue on windows   I just repaired Node and it worked fine after a restart of the command on windows

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It turns out the issue is due to the wrong path of node in system variable  The path is currently pointing to    I really don t know when I modified it   C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin   so I change to   C  Program Files nodejs   and it works like a charm

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Error  Cannot find module  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin node modules npm bin npm-cli js  Look at the above and it is obvious that the path has issue   C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin node modules npm bin npm-cli js  SHOULD BE CHANGED TO-- gt   C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin npm-cli js  which means that  quot  node modules npm bin quot  in between was duplicated  which caused such a stupid error  I fixed it by editing the System Variable and updated the PATH as described above

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create a npm folder manually inside node modules and rerun the installer with repair options  It copies the missing files

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Copy the directory named npm from your installed node path  In my case the npm directory was available in C  Program Files nodejs node modules    Navigate to C  Users  USERNAME  AppData Roaming npm node modules and paste the copied npm directory there    This method worked for me when I had the same error

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just run this command    npm i npm latest -g

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For me none of the above worked  I just noticed that every time I do a  npm install     any npm command just stop working   So every install I do  I have to run the NodeJS installation programme and select  repair   Until I find a real solution

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You may also have this problem if in your path you have C  Program Files nodejs and C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin  Remove the latter from the path

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Don t change any environment variables  It was the installer which caused the issue and did not install all the required file   I just repaired the NODEJS setup on windows 7 and it works very well  May be you can reinstall  just incase something does not work

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Change the environment path variable  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin and open the command terminal and npm -v and

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You need to run this in the command line   SET PATH C  Program Files Nodejs  PATH

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This not the same case as in the question  but might be helpful for someone facing the similar issue  On Windows  if you are calling npm commands from some CI automation tool  you might run into the error   Error  Cannot find module  SOME PATH node modules npm bin npm-cli js    where SOME PATH is not Program Files     but some project directory instead  So npm tries to find npm-cli js inside the project root directory instead of searching it in Program Files nodejs   The reason is npm cmd script      Created by npm  please don t edit manually   ECHO OFF  SETLOCAL  SET  NODE EXE   dp0 node exe  IF NOT EXIST   NODE EXE       SET  NODE EXE node      SET  NPM CLI JS   dp0 node modules npm bin npm-cli js  FOR  F  delims     F IN   CALL   NODE EXE     NPM CLI JS   prefix -g   DO     SET  NPM PREFIX NPM CLI JS   F node modules npm bin npm-cli js    IF EXIST   NPM PREFIX NPM CLI JS       SET  NPM CLI JS  NPM PREFIX NPM CLI JS        NODE EXE     NPM CLI JS        This script uses   dp0 to lookup the npm-cli js but some automation tools could set work directory in the way that   dp0 points to the local project dir so the script works incorrectly   One possible solution could be changing the npm calls from this  npm cmd install   to this  cmd exe  c npm cmd install

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I know it is an older post but as I write this the version of Node js is 12 13 1  People face this generally because they might have already installed a previous version of Node js which added the following to the system path       C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin   However  the newer versions need to add the following -     C  Program Files nodejs   I mean to say the path where you installed the Nodejs  The default is      C  Program Files nodejs   However  if you gave a different location you should point it to that

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I just repaired my NodeJS installation and it worked for me   Go to Control Panel All Control Panel Items Programs and Features --  find NodeJS and choose option repair to repair it  Hope this helps

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There are actually 2 paths which was added to your System s Variable when upgrading to nodejs latest version   1  C  Program Files nodejs  2  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin For windows 7 8 8 1 users  they will not have an Environment Variables Windows 10 smart GUI  Anyway  all you have to do is search for  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm bin  and remove it  Also  remove  C  Users  USERNAME  AppData Roaming npm  from your environment variables  I am posting this answer because I wasted my 10hrs searching for the solution on internet  By combining the above answer I finally make it through the problem

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Solution for me in VS2017  Under Tools   Options          I changed the path to  C  Program Files nodejs

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Updating NPM to the latest version worked for me   npm install npm latest -g

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None of the solutions here worked for me but after I restarted my system and did npm install again  it worked  I would guess one or more processes I ran before held unto it   Simple PC restart on Windows 10 did the magic for me

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Same Issue  Resolved by copying the missing files from  C  Users UserName AppData Roaming npm node modules npm bin  to  C  Users UserName node modules npm bin  The missing files are  npm npm cmd npm-cli js npx npx cmd npx-cli js

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