Error on updating packages in npm

Question

I get this error when updating my package.

"cannot be republished until 24 hours have passed" in nodejs

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '18 at 10:02

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Your package was most likely unpublished with npm-unpublish. If it is so, you can publish your package again only after 24 hours.

answered Mar 18 '18 at 10:02

Anton Novik

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In my case, I didn't unpublish the whole package. I only unpublished one version, which was the only version. And now I see the same error message :( – Maxim Mazurok Sep 28 '20 at 05:55
Same happened to me. Unpublished a specific - and the only - version and now I have to wait 24 hours. – JakeDK Sep 30 '20 at 14:13
https://github.com/npm/rfcs/discussions/355 change request to give a warning – Xanlantos Mar 30 '21 at 07:31
Just happened to me as well .. unpublished the first and only version of a package. Damn. – Paul Razvan Berg Sep 28 '21 at 15:28

Xanlantos · Answer 2 · 2021-05-20T14:49:28.077

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This will happen after you unpublished all versions with npm-unpublish. e.g.:

npm unpublish <package-name> -f

Sadly they do not warn you even if you just removed the last version e.g.:

npm unpublish <package-name>@<version>

after 24 hours it should work anyway.

I created a change request to give a warning about that.

edited May 20 '21 at 14:49

answered Mar 30 '21 at 07:30

Xanlantos

as of version 8.3.1 a pull request to fix this with a warning has been accepted, see: https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/4191 – Xanlantos Feb 25 '22 at 09:09

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