Error: npm ERR! write after end

Question

I am having issues installing Cordova and Ionic. At first I couldn't because of what seems to be a corrupted installation, that led me to uninstall NodeJS - Cordova - Ionic.

Now, I've reinstalled NodeJS, without issues but when it comes to the famous line :
npm install -g cordova ionic, I've got this error :
npm ERR! write after end then everytime I try to install cordova ionic, I've got the same error for a different package ...
Here are errors I get :

C:\Windows\System32>npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! write after end    
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     d:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-07T09_31_22_439Z-debug.log    
C:\Windows\System32>npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for ansi-styles@^3.2.1
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'chalk'
npm ERR! notarget    
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     d:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-07T09_40_04_399Z-debug.log    
C:\Windows\System32>
C:\Windows\System32>npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for supports-color@^5.3.0
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'chalk'
npm ERR! notarget    
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     d:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-07T09_44_05_319Z-debug.log

If any of you can help me, it would be very appreciate ;-) Have a nice day...

EDIT 1 : after installing some packages and trying again, I've got this now :

npm install -g cordova ionic
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\package.json'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\README.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\license'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\README.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\LICENSE'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\superagent-4d7c9590\lib\agent-base.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\path-is-absolute-86a430cb\readme.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\license'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\license'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\LICENSE'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\superagent-4d7c9590\lib\client.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\readme.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\os-tmpdir-c1eaefc0\readme.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parse-glob-106d32b7\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\parseurl-f42ab09d\HISTORY.md'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\opn-07c4c2dd\xdg-open'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\events.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\paginator.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\readline.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\screen-manager.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\readdirp-34d428ea\test\bed\root_dir2\root_dir2_file1.ext1'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\inquirer-b71d51ab\lib\utils\utils.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\readdirp-34d428ea\test\bed\root_dir2\root_dir2_file2.ext2'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\cordova-lib-a64e9936\src\cordova\metadata'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\formats.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\parse.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\stringify.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\qs-095a6ca4\lib\utils.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\cordova-app-hello-world-60bb7e30\template_src\res\icon\blackberry10'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\tiny-lr-cf15ff1c\src\client.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\tiny-lr-cf15ff1c\src\index.js'
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'd:\Profiles\cjolliet\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging\tiny-lr-cf15ff1c\src\server.js'
npm ERR! code EINTEGRITY
npm ERR! Verification failed while extracting readable-stream@^2.0.5:
npm ERR! sha512-vuYxeWYM+fde14+rajzqgeohAI7YoJcHE7kXDAc4Nk0EbuKnJfqtY9YtRkLo/tqkuF7MsBQRhPnPeyjYITp3ZQ== integrity checksum failed when using sha512: wanted sha512-vuYxeWYM+fde14+rajzqgeohAI7YoJcHE7kXDAc4Nk0EbuKnJfqtY9YtRkLo/tqkuF7MsBQRhPnPeyjYITp3ZQ== but got sha512-tK0yDhrkygt/knjowCUiWP9YdV7c5R+8cR0r/kt9ZhBU906Fs6RpQJCEilamRJj1Nx2rWI6LkW9gKqjTkshhEw==. (25689 bytes)

Answer 1

Try installing latest npm version this happens a lot with ionic.

npm install -g npm@latest
npm cache verify
npm i 

If this doesn't work I advise you to switch to yarn. It's faster & easier to use. This is the link to download YARN. After installing just run this command yarn global add cordova ionic

Ionic CLI uses npm by default. So go to your project & run $ yarn install.

If you want Ionic to use yarn by default run this: $ ionic config set -g yarn true

Answer 2

i faced the same issue. For my case, i update npm to latest 6.1.0 by running "npm install -g npm@latest". Then run "npm cache verify

Answer 3

In my case, I didn't downgrade my npm because it will cause chaos in other dependencies. Instead, I tried running

npm cache verify

Error gone...

Answer 4

It happened to me when I tried to install a ionic3 project with npm@5.8, well I solved this issue just add some params, use the following:

npm i --unsafe-perm

and it works.

Answer 5

This still happens randomly on some npm versions. Issue got resolved on downgrading to npm version 5.6.0 using command

npm install -g npm@5.6.0

Hope that will help someone.

Answer 6

Usually this error is due to your Antivirus blocking access to changing the files, to solve this:

1- You can try to turn your Antivirus off (temporarily) & try the installation again

2- If that alone doesn't work, try using the --force option while installing

I had this issue with some packages & it was solved by using one of the 2 steps above.

For example:

npm install -g cordova ionic --force