Can't install any NPM package, error 4058
Try these steps:
- Delete
package-lock.json
and run NPM again. - Ensure no other processes of node.js are running (check task manager)
- If you are using visual studio code, close it and try running
npm install
again. - If all else fails, restart your computer.
See thread here: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17444
For me the reason was Dropbox (my NodeJS project being somewhere deep in the Dropbox folder). I suspended the synchronisation, tried npm install
again and it installed without error. Then of course I resumed the synchronisation.
you should not forget to goto the project folder by cd "nameofproject"
and then "npm start"
is work.