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Running

npm install -g typescript

Is giving me error:

npm ERR! code Z_DATA_ERROR
npm ERR! errno -3
npm ERR! zlib: incorrect data check

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/REDACTED/.npm/_logs/2022-10-14T00_07_52_514Z-debug.log
(base) Webbs-MBP:~ REDACTED$

Not sure what this error means or why it's happening.

I'm able to install other packages globally, npm install -g ts-node works fine.

Looking at the log file I see:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli   '/Users/REDACTED/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.0/bin/node',
1 verbose cli   '/Users/REDACTED/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.0/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli   'install',
1 verbose cli   '-g',
1 verbose cli   'typescript'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm@6.14.16
3 info using node@v14.19.0
4 verbose npm-session f9097623d247d337
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readGlobalPackageData
7 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/typescript 326ms (from cache)
8 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for typescript@latest zlib: incorrect data check
9 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 13ms
10 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 658ms
11 verbose stack ZlibError: zlib: incorrect data check
11 verbose stack     at Unzip.write (/Users/REDACTED/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/minizlib/index.js:147:22)
11 verbose stack     at Object.write (/Users/REDACTED/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/parse.js:313:19)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.ondata (internal/streams/readable.js:731:22)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.emit (events.js:400:28)
11 verbose stack     at addChunk (internal/streams/readable.js:293:12)
11 verbose stack     at readableAddChunk (internal/streams/readable.js:267:9)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.Readable.push (internal/streams/readable.js:206:10)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.Transform.push (internal/streams/transform.js:166:32)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.afterTransform (internal/streams/transform.js:101:10)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough._transform (internal/streams/passthrough.js:46:3)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.Transform._read (internal/streams/transform.js:205:10)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.Transform._write (internal/streams/transform.js:193:12)
11 verbose stack     at writeOrBuffer (internal/streams/writable.js:358:12)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.Writable.write (internal/streams/writable.js:303:10)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.ondata (internal/streams/readable.js:731:22)
11 verbose stack     at PassThrough.emit (events.js:400:28)
12 verbose cwd /Users/REDACTED
13 verbose Darwin 20.6.0
14 verbose argv "/Users/REDACTED/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.0/bin/node" "/Users/REDACTED/.nvm/versions/node/v14.19.0/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "typescript"
15 verbose node v14.19.0
16 verbose npm  v6.14.16
17 error code Z_DATA_ERROR
18 error errno -3
19 error zlib: incorrect data check
20 verbose exit [ -3, true ]

OS: macOSBigSur with M1 Chip

ANimator120
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There's apparently a bug in the most recent version of node, see Zlib error when attempting to run npm install or yarn

make sure you have node version manager (nvm) installed, then downgrade to node 14.17:ts

nvm install 14.17
nvm alias default 14.17

npm install typescript --save-dev
tsc

worked for me after experiencing the same error :)

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