npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL npm ERR! Could not install from "Ibrahi\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\8992" as it does not contain a package.json file

Question

I'm sitting my react environment and I get this error.

New react installation. npm --version is running correctly but still :

npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL

npm ERR! Could not install from "Ibrahi\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_npx\8992" as it does not contain a package.json file.

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

I faced same issue, problem was due to space in my user name i.e. FirstName LastName and issue is with npx. I applied following fix and everything worked just fine

npm config set cache C:\tmp\nodejs\npm-cache --global

Source: https://github.com/zkat/npx/issues/146

Answer 2

Many thanks to Bhupender for providing the github link!

A summary of the best answers there, for those, like me, coming late to the party:

Find the windows short name for your user directory...

cd C:\Users
dir /x

Then edit the npm cache location to use the windows short name.

e.g. "C:\Users\HP User" is also "C:\Users\HPUSER~1" so the following command resolves the problem...

npm config set cache "C:\Users\HPUSER~1\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache" --global

This has the advantage of avoiding having to install create react app locally.

Answer 3

Late to the party but I was also facing the same issue so what I did is

1. Step 1: Open the Terminal as an Admin and run the following command first npm install -g create-react-app to get around the npx issue.
2. After step 1 run this command:- npx create-react-app my-first-app hope so it'll help you.

Answer 4

This happens when you have a space in your path. To fix it follow these steps:

1. run npm config edit
2. go to line where cache is: ; cache = 'C:\Users\FIRSTNAME LASTNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache'
3. replace the space between firstname and lastname with ~1
4. remove ; at the beginning of the line
5. run yarn

Just to make sure you've got it, the line should look like this:

cache = 'C:\Users\FIRSTNAME~1LASTNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache