npm ERR! Refusing to delete / code EEXIST

This was how I solved mine after 'googling' around...

Navigate to the directory your node was installed in
rename your npm.cmd and npm files
Try run the installation again
If successful..delete the files you renamed earlier npm and npm.cmd
if not, :( :(

The cli commands here...in case you don't want to be renaming and stuffs

cd %ProgramFiles%\nodejs
ren npm.cmd npm2.cmd
ren npm npm2 
npm2 install npm@latest -g

del npm2
del npm2.cmd

Rolf-schmidiger

Steps

Delete the node_modules directory completely.
Run npm install again.

This should help.

Tags:

Node.Js

Npm

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