Try to remove .npm if npm install fails

February 19, 2013

I encountered an error like following when I tried to solve dependency my module JUMLY. It's the time I cloned the repository and ran npm install.

npm WARN prefer global [email protected] should be installed with -g
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bytes/0.1.0
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, utime '/Users/tsakuma/3scale-dashboard/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/node_modules/qs/benchmark.js'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!     <[email protected]>
npm ERR! System Darwin 12.2.0
npm ERR! command "/Users/tsakuma/.nvm/v0.9.4/bin/node" "/Users/tsakuma/.nvm/v0.9.4/bin/npm" "install"
... to be continued long

I say the conclusion first of all.
Try to remove your ~/.npm if no problem for you.

rm -rm ~/.npm

And then try npm install again.
In case of me, it worked well though I didn't know the root cause.