Can't Install Mongoose via NPM

Question

I am trying to download mongoose into my node.js project via npm.

The command is npm install mongoose. However, this leads to the below output, and eventually leads to an error. The only things in the mongoose directory are the dependencies (in the node_modules folder). Any other package will work, but mongoose repeatedly fails. I've tried npm install -g mongoose and sudo npm install mongoose, but neither of them work either.

Any ideas what might be going wrong?

node version 0.10.20

npm version 1.3.11

$ npm install mongoose
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mongoose
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongoose
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ms/0.1.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sliced/0.0.5
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/hooks/0.2.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/muri/0.3.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb/1.3.19
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/regexp-clone/0.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mpath/0.1.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mpromise/0.2.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ms/0.1.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/sliced/0.0.5
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/hooks/0.2.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/muri/0.3.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb/1.3.19
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/regexp-clone/0.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mpath/0.1.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mpromise/0.2.1
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, chmod '/Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/index.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 11.4.2
npm ERR! command "/Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/bin/node" "/Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/bin/npm" "install" "mongoose"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.20
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11
npm ERR! path /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/index.js
npm ERR! fstream_path /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/index.js
npm ERR! fstream_type File
npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter
npm ERR! fstream_finish_call chmod
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR! fstream_stack /Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/writer.js:305:19
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR! error rolling back Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/hooks'
npm ERR! error rolling back  [email protected] { [Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/hooks']
npm ERR! error rolling back   errno: 53,
npm ERR! error rolling back   code: 'ENOTEMPTY',
npm ERR! error rolling back   path: '/Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/hooks' }
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mpath/package.json'
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 11.4.2
npm ERR! command "/Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/bin/node" "/Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/bin/npm" "install" "mongoose"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.20
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11
npm ERR! path /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mpath/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mpromise/README.md'
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 11.4.2
npm ERR! command "/Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/bin/node" "/Users/khanh/.nvm/v0.10.20/bin/npm" "install" "mongoose"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.20
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11
npm ERR! path /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mpromise/README.md
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/khanh/Code/bunnybots/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Answer 1

Use npm cache clean.

After that, install as normal, and the download should proceed correctly.