Error using `npm install font-awesome`

Question

I tried installing Font Awesome using

npm install --save font-awesome

However npm is throwing errors

npm ERR! path C:\Users\a\Desktop\Code\faTest\node_modules\font-awesome
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\a\Desktop\Code\faTest\node_modules\font-awesome' -> 'C:\Users\a\Desktop\Code\faTest\node_modules\.font-awesome.DELETE'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\a\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-11-25T16_52_23_476Z-debug.log

Tried running the following

npm cache clean --force
npm install -g npm
npm install
npm install --save font-awesome

but I still end up with the same error.

Running Windows 10, npm 5.5.1, node 7.9.0

Anyone getting the same issues?

Answer 1

Check to see whether some other application has instances of node running in the background. If so, try to terminate them and then retry your npm command.

Or run node.js as administrator.