NPM on Cygwin: unexpected end of file

Question

I am trying to use NPM on cygwin, but keep getting following errors:

ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "--no-same-owner" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/contents/___package.npm" tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "--no-same-owner" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/contents/___package.npm" tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "--no-same-owner" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/contents/___package.npm" tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "--no-same-owner" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/contents/___package.npm" 
ERR! Failed unpacking /tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/tmp.tgz
ERR! couldn't unpack /tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/tmp.tgz to /tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/contents
verbose about to build /home/Tema/node_modules/express
ERR! error installing [email protected] Error: Failed tar "-mvxpf" "-" "--no-same-owner" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1305893882865/1305893885765-0.008730818051844835/contents/___package.npm"

There are couple advices I googled (npm cache clean and rebaseall), but nothing helped. So, is there any way to use NPM in Cygwin?

Answer 1

1. Blow the tmp directory away

   rm -R /tmp/*
   

2. Clear npm's cache

   npm cache clean
   

3. Exit out of your current shell and start a ash or dash shell up (from in cygwin/bin)

4. In the ash (or dash) shell execute the rebaseall command.

   /bin/rebaseall -v
   

5. Exit out and restart a new bash shell.

6. Try your npm command again.

   npm install <package>