Why does npm throw an "einvalidtagnme" error when trying to install packages depending on nodejs?

Asked Feb 12 '21 at 15:28

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I have been trying to install idyll on my laptop (running on Linux Mint). However I always get this error:

npm ERR! code EINVALIDTAGNAME

npm ERR! Invalid tag name ">=^16.0.0": Tags may not have any characters that encodeURIComponent encodes.

I am pretty new to coding - so maybe this is a trivial issue but googling didn't provide me with any hints. I tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling nodejs and npm as suggested in Npm install cannot find module 'semver' but that didn't help.

Does somebody have an idea what I could do to get this running?

asked Feb 12 '21 at 15:28

Jay

have you tried installing it with `npm install -g idyll`? – germanio Feb 12 '21 at 15:48
Yes, the above error is exactely what I get when I run `npm install -g idyll` :/ – Jay Feb 12 '21 at 16:41
Just in case, check this out: https://github.com/idyll-lang/idyll/issues/694 Could you use node v14 to try to install this? – germanio Feb 17 '21 at 15:32
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Thanks a lot @germanio, I guess that was the issue... – Jay Feb 28 '21 at 16:41

Why does npm throw an "einvalidtagnme" error when trying to install packages depending on nodejs?

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