Cannot install angular-cli (yes, I'm using npm v3)

[rwillmer]

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1. OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

OSX El Capitan

1. Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run
   in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

Cannot install ng, so I cannot give you the version.

$ node -v
v4.5.0
$ npm -v
3.10.8

1. Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you
   do on your code? etc.

Starting from scratch. Clean install of node/npm. followed by a npm install --upgrade
Now trying "sudo npm install -g angular-cli"

1. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some
   more information.

npm ERR! Darwin 15.5.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "angular-cli"
npm ERR! node v4.5.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.8

npm ERR! uid must be an unsigned int

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[rwillmer]

It's an npm problem. If you download the current LTS version of node, it gives you the above versions.

npm v3.10.8 has this bug, npm/npm#13946

So my problem was this:

• the standard node download gives you npm v2
• angular-cli needs npm v3
• upgrading npm gives you v3.10.8, which has this bug
• and once you're on v3.10.8, you can't downgrade to v3.10.7, because of this bug.

My workaround was this:

• remove /usr/local/bin/npm
• reinstall the standard node download to get npm v2
  -$ sudo npm install -g --upgrade npm@v3.10.7, to get the previous version

Will leave this open while I see whether this is a complete fix, but thought I'd post this now, in case it helps someone else.

[rwillmer]

I needed to uninstall and then reinstall angular-cli, but otherwise, this is now working for me.

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