After removing nodist, npm install error: "EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist'

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After removing nodist, npm install error: "EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist'

thohan opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

After uninstalling nodist, I get the error in the title when running npm install (with nvm). I don't see anything amiss in the env/path variables. I'm guessing there is something lingering in the registry. No idea why a seemingly nodist-free environment would try to do a mkdir. This is on Windows 10.

Bryan · Answer 1 · Thu Oct 29 2020 02:22:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see an issue that looks similar to mine. I'll read that and then close this if that's applicable.

Bryan · Answer 2 · Thu Oct 29 2020 02:50:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I thought issue #196 might have the answer, but as I look at my .npmrc file, it just has the following:

save-prefix = ~
legacy-bundling = true

and the result is the same even if I remove these settings. I'm stumped.

Bryan · Answer 3 · Thu Oct 29 2020 03:36:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For what it's worth, I tried installing 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 at different times, and with both I got this error message toward the end of the install process:

PATH not updated, original length 2172 > 1024

Bryan · Answer 4 · Thu Oct 29 2020 04:15:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ahh, ok. It helps to edit the correct .npmrc. From a different thread:

Check the .npmrc file in your windows user home directory, e.g. C:\Users\your-name-here\.npmrc

So I commented out the single line and that did the trick. I didn't even know a .npmrc file lived there but I do now.