Unable to install package.json module

[pdehaan]

I'm opening this issue because:

• npm is crashing.
• npm is producing an incorrect install.
• npm is doing something I don't understand.
• Other (see below for feature requests):

What's going wrong?

I'm trying to install [the poorly named] package.json module, and it's throwing errors:

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

$ npm i package.json -S

OUTPUT: (click to expand)

npm ERR! not a package /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json
npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/Users/pdehaan/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.0/bin/node" "/Users/pdehaan/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.0/bin/npm" "i" "package.json" "-S"
npm ERR! node v6.3.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.3
npm ERR! path /var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69552-1140e3d9/unpack-551ab048/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69552-1140e3d9/unpack-551ab048/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69552-1140e3d9/unpack-551ab048/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/npm-debug.log

npm-debug.log (click to expando)

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/Users/pdehaan/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.0/bin/node',
1 verbose cli   '/Users/pdehaan/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.0/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli   'i',
1 verbose cli   'package.json',
1 verbose cli   '-S' ]
2 info using npm@3.10.3
3 info using node@v6.3.0
4 silly loadCurrentTree Starting
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readLocalPackageData
7 silly fetchPackageMetaData package.json
8 silly fetchOtherPackageData package.json
9 silly cache add args [ 'package.json', null ]
10 verbose cache add spec package.json
11 silly cache add parsed spec Result {
11 silly cache add   raw: 'package.json',
11 silly cache add   scope: null,
11 silly cache add   escapedName: 'package.json',
11 silly cache add   name: null,
11 silly cache add   rawSpec: 'package.json',
11 silly cache add   spec: '/Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json',
11 silly cache add   type: 'local' }
12 silly addLocalTarball shasum (computed) 34e4a025445f12b7b93029e6dcd0884d2b98fec9
13 verbose addTmpTarball /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json not in flight; adding
14 verbose correctMkdir /Users/pdehaan/.npm correctMkdir not in flight; initializing
15 verbose addTmpTarball validating metadata from /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json
16 verbose tar unpack /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json
17 verbose tar unpacking to /var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137
18 silly gentlyRm /var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137 is being purged
19 verbose gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137
20 silly gunzTarPerm modes [ '755', '644' ]
21 error not a package /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json
22 error addLocal Could not install /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test/package.json
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json'
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData     at Error (native)
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData  error for package.json { Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json'
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData     at Error (native)
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData   errno: -2,
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData   code: 'ENOENT',
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData   syscall: 'open',
23 silly fetchPackageMetaData   path: '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json' }
24 silly rollbackFailedOptional Starting
25 silly rollbackFailedOptional Finishing
26 silly runTopLevelLifecycles Starting
27 silly runTopLevelLifecycles Finishing
28 silly install printInstalled
29 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json'
29 verbose stack     at Error (native)
30 verbose cwd /Users/pdehaan/dev/tmp/del/pkgjson-test
31 error Darwin 15.6.0
32 error argv "/Users/pdehaan/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.0/bin/node" "/Users/pdehaan/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.0/bin/npm" "i" "package.json" "-S"
33 error node v6.3.0
34 error npm  v3.10.3
35 error path /var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json
36 error code ENOENT
37 error errno -2
38 error syscall open
39 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json'
40 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/folders/qc/g_f0szh95k1fzph34rhmf5jw0000gp/T/npm-69673-4270e319/unpack-fc030137/package.json'
40 error enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
40 error enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
41 verbose exit [ -2, true ]

### supporting information: - `npm -v` prints: 3.10.3 - `node -v` prints: v6.3.0 - `npm config get registry` prints: https://registry.npmjs.org/ - Windows, OS X, or Linux?: OS X

[pdehaan]

Workaround is to seemingly install from GitHub:

$ npm i IonicaBizau/package.json -S

Results in:

{
  "name": "pkgjson-test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    "package.json": "github:ionicabizau/package.json"
  }
}

[kenany]

Alternatively:

$ npm install package.json@latest

[kenany]

Actually I guess this is basically a duplicate of #12455. @othiym23's comment is probably still the current stance on this particular package.

[pdehaan]

Yeah, sounds like a dupe [of #12455] to me, thanks!