npm is broken and i can not run any npm command

Question

My npm is broken and I could not run any npm command.

$ type npm
npm is hashed (/usr/local/bin/npm)

$ type node
node is hashed (/usr/local/bin/node)

$ type nodejs
nodejs is hashed (/usr/bin/nodejs)

$ uname -a 
Linux mj-lp-mint 4.4.0-53-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 15:59:10 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Versions:

$ node -v
v11.0.0

$ nodejs -v
v10.13.0

Following npm command gave this error:

$ sudo npm install npm -g

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npmlog/log.js:57
log.progressEnabled = log.gauge.isEnabled()
                                ^

TypeError: log.gauge.isEnabled is not a function
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npmlog/log.js:57:33)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:707:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:718:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:605:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:544:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:536:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:643:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:22:13
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:153:3)

Why node and nodejs has different versions and npm -v gave same error.

Answer 1

You're facing this issue. The short solution seems to be:

Delete node_modules/npm and then run yarn install again.

There are other solutions in the issue comment thread.