Error: npm ERR! write after end

Question

I am having issues installing Cordova and Ionic. At first I couldn't because of what seems to be a corrupted installation, that led me to uninstall NodeJS - Cordova - Ionic.

Now, I've reinstalled NodeJS, without issues but when it comes to the famous line :
npm install -g cordova ionic, I've got this error :
npm ERR! write after end then everytime I try to install cordova ionic, I've got the same error for a different package ...
Here are errors I get :

C:\Windows\System32>npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! write after end    
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     d:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-07T09_31_22_439Z-debug.log    
C:\Windows\System32>npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for ansi-styles@^3.2.1
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'chalk'
npm ERR! notarget    
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     d:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-07T09_40_04_399Z-debug.log    
C:\Windows\System32>
C:\Windows\System32>npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for supports-color@^5.3.0
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'chalk'
npm ERR! notarget    
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     d:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-07T09_44_05_319Z-debug.log

If any of you can help me, it would be very appreciate ;-) Have a nice day...

EDIT 1 : after installing some packages and trying again, I've got this now :

npm install -g cordova ionic
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\README.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\license'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\README.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\LICENSE'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\superagent-4d7c9590\lib\agent-base.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\readme.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\license'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\license'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\LICENSE'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\superagent-4d7c9590\lib\client.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\readme.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\readme.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\HISTORY.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\xdg-open'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\events.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\paginator.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\readline.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\screen-manager.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\readdirp-34d428ea\test\bed\root_dir2\root_dir2_file1.ext1'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\utils.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\readdirp-34d428ea\test\bed\root_dir2\root_dir2_file2.ext2'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\cordova-lib-a64e9936\src\cordova\metadata'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\formats.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\parse.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\stringify.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\utils.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\cordova-app-hello-world-60bb7e30\template_src\res\icon\blackberry10'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\tiny-lr-cf15ff1c\src\client.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\tiny-lr-cf15ff1c\src\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\tiny-lr-cf15ff1c\src\server.js'
npm ERR! code EINTEGRITY
npm ERR! Verification failed while extracting readable-stream@^2.0.5:
npm ERR! sha512-vuYxeWYM+fde14+rajzqgeohAI7YoJcHE7kXDAc4Nk0EbuKnJfqtY9YtRkLo/tqkuF7MsBQRhPnPeyjYITp3ZQ== integrity checksum failed when using sha512: wanted sha512-vuYxeWYM+fde14+rajzqgeohAI7YoJcHE7kXDAc4Nk0EbuKnJfqtY9YtRkLo/tqkuF7MsBQRhPnPeyjYITp3ZQ== but got sha512-tK0yDhrkygt/knjowCUiWP9YdV7c5R+8cR0r/kt9ZhBU906Fs6RpQJCEilamRJj1Nx2rWI6LkW9gKqjTkshhEw==. (25689 bytes)

What is your node & npm version? – Melchia Mar 07 '18 at 10:06 — Melchia, Mar 07 '18 at 10:06
Node : v8.10.0 Npm : 5.7.1 – Clément Jolliet Mar 07 '18 at 10:18 — Clément Jolliet, Mar 07 '18 at 10:18

Melchia · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-10T15:03:18.557

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Try installing latest npm version this happens a lot with ionic.

npm install -g npm@latest
npm cache verify
npm i

If this doesn't work I advise you to switch to yarn. It's faster & easier to use. This is the link to download YARN. After installing just run this command yarn global add cordova ionic

Ionic CLI uses npm by default. So go to your project & run $ yarn install.

If you want Ionic to use yarn by default run this: $ ionic config set -g yarn true

edited Jun 10 '18 at 15:03

answered Mar 07 '18 at 10:24

Melchia

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Still got issues after downgrading NPM. Tried to use Yarn : no problem to install Ionic but when I started a project, errors with package.json files not found in ionic-angular and @ionic\app-scripts. – Clément Jolliet Mar 07 '18 at 10:49
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Yes this is normal behavior because ionic CLI uses npm by default. So go to your project & run yarn install .If you want ionic to use yarn by default run this: ionic config set -g yarn true – Melchia Mar 07 '18 at 10:53
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To me "npm cache verify" and then "npm install" solved the issue – Chakri May 23 '18 at 18:04
Worked on windows OS while it gives error on creating react project. Thank you. – Avinash Shinde Aug 23 '23 at 09:38

score 31 · Answer 2 · edited May 26 '18 at 08:44

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In my case, I didn't downgrade my npm because it will cause chaos in other dependencies. Instead, I tried running

npm cache verify

Error gone...

edited May 26 '18 at 08:44

Jesse

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answered May 07 '18 at 05:49

Dobidoo

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score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '18 at 10:02

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Let, update the latest version of npm for running this command,

npm install npm@latest -g

Then run this command,

npm install -g cordova ionic

answered Mar 07 '18 at 10:02

AddWeb Solution Pvt Ltd

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No errors while the update, but still can't install Ionic with sames issues, but for ansi-styles@^3.2.1 – Clément Jolliet Mar 07 '18 at 10:08
I could install ansi-styles but at the next try to install, I got a lot of warnings about missings files in node_modules\.staging and a ERR! code EINTEGRITY for a failed verification while readable-stream was extracting. I can post the full output if it can help in an answer. – Clément Jolliet Mar 07 '18 at 10:21
this case uninstall ionic for this command==> npm uninstall -g cordova ionic Then close Node.js CMD and Now install ionic cordova==> npm install -g cordova ionic – AddWeb Solution Pvt Ltd Mar 07 '18 at 10:23
The installation of ionic seems to work but when I tried to create the project, got ERR: code ETARGET, no matching version found for ansi-styles – Clément Jolliet Mar 07 '18 at 10:33
Regarding ERR:code ETARGET error please create a new question. – AddWeb Solution Pvt Ltd Mar 09 '18 at 08:05
Try this link https://stackoverflow.com/a/43931987/2919078 and I hope this will fine – Gautam Apr 13 '18 at 09:31

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 15 '18 at 21:15

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It happened to me when I tried to install a ionic3 project with npm@5.8, well I solved this issue just add some params, use the following:

npm i --unsafe-perm

and it works.

edited Apr 15 '18 at 21:15

Melchia

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answered Apr 12 '18 at 00:55

Alex Lu

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 07:12

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This still happens randomly on some npm versions. Issue got resolved on downgrading to npm version 5.6.0 using command

npm install -g npm@5.6.0

Hope that will help someone.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 07:12

Sorabh Mendiratta

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score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 28 '18 at 19:37

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Update July 28, 2018

This problem is related to npm version 5.7.1

Upgrading to node version 8.11.3 with npm version 5.8.0 solve the problem

answered Jul 28 '18 at 19:37

chebaby

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score 4 · Answer 7 · edited May 20 '19 at 16:49

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Just run npm cache verify

This will clean it all.

edited May 20 '19 at 16:49

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answered Jun 05 '18 at 11:22

Yamen Ashraf

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score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 06 '18 at 03:36

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i faced the same issue. For my case, i update npm to latest 6.1.0 by running "npm install -g npm@latest". Then run "npm cache verify

answered Jun 06 '18 at 03:36

Lee De Blade

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Ahmed Elkoussy · Answer 9 · 2018-06-03T17:40:07.697

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Usually this error is due to your Antivirus blocking access to changing the files, to solve this:

1- You can try to turn your Antivirus off (temporarily) & try the installation again

2- If that alone doesn't work, try using the --force option while installing

I had this issue with some packages & it was solved by using one of the 2 steps above.

For example:

npm install -g cordova ionic --force

edited Jun 03 '18 at 17:40

answered Apr 17 '18 at 20:52

Ahmed Elkoussy

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score -1 · Answer 10 · answered May 24 '20 at 12:43

None of the previous answers could help me.

Fortunately, after a lot of 'try and error', I found the following simple solution:

delete (or move) the file 'package-lock.json' and npm install works flawlessly.

Tip: if you have your project in a git repository:

add the file 'package-lock.json' in '.gitignore'

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