How to increase the timeout for `yarn install`

Question

I'm currently using Yarn on a very unstable internet connection. Sometimes it takes hours until I can finally download all the packages.

I noticed Yarn retries the download when there is some kind of the internet connection:

[1/4] Resolving packages...
31-Dec-1969 21:00:00    [INFO] info There appears to be trouble with your 
network connection. Retrying...
31-Dec-1969 21:00:00    [ERROR] error An unexpected error occurred: 
"https://github.com/flot/flot: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN github.com:443".

Is it possible to retry forever until it downloads or increase the timeout?

Something like {timeout: 9999999}

score 122 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '18 at 20:01

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Try using the network-timeout flag with a delay in milliseconds, like this:

yarn install --network-timeout 1000000000

answered Jul 03 '18 at 20:01

Crono

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can i set it at global level or this will work only for current yarn install? – Sunil Garg Nov 03 '20 at 07:33
As far as I know there is no global setting for this I'm afraid. :| – Crono Nov 03 '20 at 14:05
okie.. i got new windows, after installing new window this is happening before that it was working – Sunil Garg Nov 04 '20 at 06:44
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still getting a "Timeout awaiting 'socket' for 60000ms" error even using this command (yarn 3.2.1). Maybe I'll open a new question... – Aaron Campbell Jun 03 '22 at 00:41

olawalejuwonm · Answer 2 · 2023-06-20T16:39:45.013

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You can configure it with this:

yarn config set network-timeout 600000 -g

Newer version of yarn use this:

yarn config set httpTimeout 600000

edited Jun 20 '23 at 16:39

answered Nov 14 '20 at 11:21

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Haven't tried this myself but if it does work as it suggests, then this should become the accepted answer. Out of curiosity, is there any documentation about this on Yarn's website? Does it work with Yarn 2 only or was it always sitting there? – Crono Nov 26 '20 at 13:11
it doesn't come up from yarn --help, but there is a docs page: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/config/ – nruth Jan 18 '21 at 20:31
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Newer versions of yarn use `yarn config set httpTimeout 600000` - https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/pull/1291 – Jaybird Sep 18 '22 at 22:36
@Jaybird have you confirmed that, should i update the answer? – olawalejuwonm Sep 19 '22 at 19:37

How to increase the timeout for `yarn install`

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