npm install always gives 'Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in npm previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.'

Question

I am currently using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and I am trying to install something using npm install but it always gives the error below. I tried other aliases as well ( npm i , npm add ) but the error persists.

npm install
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /home/dell/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/14/21/2143fe2b135cd8bfdad85c9c3f9ac46ab279a58dee631cfea1b9678167bd388d44f2d36739019c96ba3a4c4756b1ea6570f4dc8931fb8ad8230359521f80
npm ERR! errno -1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in
npm ERR! previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! To permanently fix this problem, please run:
npm ERR!   sudo chown -R 1001:1001 "/home/dell/.npm"

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/dell/.npm/_logs/2020-07-30T17_16_58_257Z-debug.log

When I run the sudo chown -R 1001:1001 "/home/dell/.npm" command, it does nothing, and the error remains when I run npm install again. I have also searched StackOverflow and other platforms for the answer, but no solution seems to solve this problem.

PS: My node version is 12.18.3 and npm version is 6.14.6.

If someone can help me resolve this, I would really appreciate it!

Answer 1

I had problem with create-react-app. Solve it using yarn.

yarn global remove create-react-app

then

yarn global add create-react-app

and

create-react-app MyApp