npm ERR! cb() never called

Question

I was trying to download expo cli and I got error:-

C:\WINDOWS\system32>npm i -g expo-cli
npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/cli/issues>

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-03-03T14_02_14_809Z-debug.log

I also used npm cache clean --force. But it didn't work too😥

C:\WINDOWS\system32>npm -v
7.6.0

C:\WINDOWS\system32>node -v
v14.16.0

Please help me......

And after doing npm i -g npm it worked!!!!!!

But when I tried to install or download any packages then error:

E:\React-native\practice>npm i react-native-elements
npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/cli/issues>

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\HP\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-03-04T05_03_20_067Z-debug.log

So what is wrong going on?

Answer 1

If you are using npm version 5 or above:

Try following command:

$ sudo npm cache verify

OR

$ sudo npm cache clean --force