npm Error “ Cannot find module 'npmlog' ”

Question

I am running CentOS 6 and after logging in, I encounter the following error

  module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'npmlog'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at /home/dspace/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/npm:19:11
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/dspace/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/npm:87:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
nvm is not compatible with the npm config "prefix" option: currently set to ""
Run `npm config delete prefix` or `nvm use --delete-prefix v0.10.31 --silent` to unset it.

I've discovered that it is a version bug and can be resolved either by upgrading the npm version or by deleting the node modules like so;

rm -rf node_modules

Then reinstalling them;

npm install

After removing the modules, npm install failed to run because of missing dependancies i.e. the modules. Now the command shows no response at all.

My node version is v0.10.48

Possible duplicate of [Error "Cannot find module 'npmlog'" after "npm update -g"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34702617/error-cannot-find-module-npmlog-after-npm-update-g) — Sibeesh Venu, Dec 21 '17 at 05:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 29 '18 at 13:28

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This worked for me

Install nvm: wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
Restart the terminal
Run nvm install node

answered Jan 29 '18 at 13:28

Samuel Mwamburi

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worked for me on macOS – Casey Dec 22 '22 at 00:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '18 at 11:26

I had the same problem after proposed npm upgrade via npm -i -g npm. But Fedora npm/node installed via dnf has modules links to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules.bundled/ from /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/. I saw links were broken because usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules.bundled/ disappeared. So reinstallation node,nodejs,npm via dnf/rpm solved the problem.

npm Error “ Cannot find module 'npmlog' ”

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