npm reports "requires (one version)' but will load (another version)"

Question

Likely after cordove install with npm I got warning messages almost for every npm operations "requires colors@'>=0.6.0' but will load .. color"

D:\Workspaces\Enide-Studio-2014\OpenWith.js>npm i . -g
C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\openwith -> C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\openwith\bin\openwith.js
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\cordova requires colors@'>=0.6.0' but will load
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\colors,
npm WARN unmet dependency which is version 0.6.0-1
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\node-static requires colors@'>=0.6.0' but will load
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\colors,
npm WARN unmet dependency which is version 0.6.0-1
openwith@0.11.0 C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\openwith

How to fix such npm errors?

Answer 1

At first, delete the phonegap\ folder in the location C:\Users\weibl\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\. Of course, specific location will be different for others.

Then, proceed for any npm install/update command you want.

Answer 2

Clean out the node-Modules folder and re-run: npm install

Answer 3

As Andrew hinted, solution was to

npm -g update colors