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Wyllow Wulf
Wyllow Wulf

Reputation: 410

Why can't I install npm packages on Ubuntu 18.04.1?

I'm trying to install mysql, nodejs, and express and mysql modules for node on Ubuntu 18.04.01, this is what I am doing step by step:

  1. install ubuntu
  2. sudo apt-add-repository universe && sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
  3. sudo apt -y install fail2ban mysql-server build-essential
  4. sudo ufw allow OpenSSH && sudo ufw enable
  5. sudo mysql_secure_installation
  6. alter user 'root'@'localhost' identified with mysql_native_password by 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; flush privileges;
  7. curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
  8. mkdir nodedbtest && cd nodedbtest
  9. touch index.js
  10. npm init
  11. npm install express

and upon doing #11, i get this error:

npm ERR! code ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE
npm ERR! The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/willdorf/.npm/_logs/2018-11-05T00_14_18_703Z-debug.log

this is the log:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'install', 'mysql' ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose npm-session 2456a42eb4ea509e
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readLocalPackageData
7 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for mysql@latest The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"
8 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 14ms
9 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 3340ms
10 verbose stack TypeError [ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE]: The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"
10 verbose stack     at lookup (dns.js:113:11)
10 verbose stack     at net.js:1006:5
10 verbose stack     at defaultTriggerAsyncIdScope (internal/async_hooks.js:294:19)
10 verbose stack     at lookupAndConnect (net.js:1005:3)
10 verbose stack     at TLSSocket.Socket.connect (net.js:940:5)
10 verbose stack     at Object.connect (_tls_wrap.js:1148:12)
10 verbose stack     at HttpsAgent.createConnection (https.js:119:22)
10 verbose stack     at HttpsAgent.createSocket (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agentkeepalive/lib/_http_agent.js:265:26)
10 verbose stack     at HttpsAgent.createSocket (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agentkeepalive/lib/agent.js:77:11)
10 verbose stack     at HttpsAgent.addRequest (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agentkeepalive/lib/_http_agent.js:239:10)
10 verbose stack     at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:248:16)
10 verbose stack     at request (https.js:280:10)
10 verbose stack     at fetch.Promise (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:54:17)
10 verbose stack     at new Promise (<anonymous>)
10 verbose stack     at fetch (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:41:10)
10 verbose stack     at retry (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/index.js:332:14)
11 verbose cwd /home/willdorf/nodedbtest
12 verbose Linux 4.15.0-38-generic
13 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "mysql"
14 verbose node v10.13.0
15 verbose npm  v6.4.1
16 error code ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE
17 error The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"
18 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2522

Answers (1)

fayezk13
fayezk13

Reputation: 476

Try the following worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-add-repository universe && sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt -y install fail2ban mysql-server build-essential
sudo ufw allow OpenSSH && sudo ufw enable
sudo mysql_secure_installation
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
mkdir nodedbtest && cd nodedbtest
touch index.js
npm init
npm install express

Upvotes: 0

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