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royco
royco

Reputation: 5529

How to get more info from npm install?

I'm using npm install on Windows, and want to get more information about this:

npm WARN install Couldn't install optional dependency: Unsupported
npm WARN install Couldn't install optional dependency: Unsupported

Earlier versions of npm dumped the installation progress into the console, but the current version (3.3.12) just displays a progress bar. The above warnings appear, but I have no idea what package they're referring to.

How can I get npm to behave as it used to and dump its output to the console? Or, how can I write a logfile of npm install?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 21042

Answers (2)

Siva Kannan
Siva Kannan

Reputation: 2481

This command is to store the npm install error log in a file

npm install --loglevel verbose > log.txt 2>&1

you will find log.txt in your root directory of the project

Upvotes: 4

lodlock
lodlock

Reputation: 3788

To get npm to output more details you can try using npm install --verbose or if that isn't enough you could try npm install --loglevel silly

Upvotes: 32

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