installing node-inspector fails under npm 5.3.0
eric@mouni2:~$ sudo npm install -g node-inspector
> [email protected] preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-inspector/node_modules/v8-profiler
> node -e 'process.exit(0)'
npm ERR! Cannot read property 'pause' of undefined
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/eric/.npm/_logs/2017-09-24T09_34_28_089Z-debug.log
This may be related to npm ERR! Cannot read property 'pause' of undefined --Bluemix .
Per the thread around npm issue 16677, you can apparently remove ~/.npm, though npm cache verify (no root access necessary) seemed more elegant:
eric@mouni2:~$ npm cache verify
Cache verified and compressed (~/.npm/_cacache):
Content verified: 1077 (29065069 bytes)
Content garbage-collected: 15 (201214 bytes)
Index entries: 1442
Finished in 1.482s
eric@mouni2:~$ sudo npm install -g node-inspector
/usr/local/bin/node-inspector -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-inspector/bin/inspector.js
/usr/local/bin/node-debug -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-inspector/bin/node-debug.js
+ [email protected]
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