Cannot install hydrogen

[acboulet]

Description:
I'm having difficulties installing Hydrogen through atom or through command lines. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Description of the issue]
Every time I try to install Hydrogen I get the same error log. I've tried reopening atom, and two different installation methods. I'm using Windows 10- 64bit.
Steps to Reproduce:

1. Find Hydrogen through Atom install settings
2. Attempt install -> See log

1a. Try 'apm install hydrogen' through command.
2a. Same error log as below.

Versions:

Which OS and which version of Hydrogen and Atom are you running?
I'm using Windows 10-64 bit. Trying to install Hydrogen 2.5.0 on the update Atom for 1.27.2 x64bit
You can get this information from copy and pasting the output of atom --version from the command line.

Logs:
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.16299
npm ERR! argv "C:\Users\acb\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.27.2\resources\app\apm\bin\node.exe" "C:\Users\acb\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.27.2\resources\app\apm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "--globalconfig" "C:\Users\acb\.atom\.apm\.apmrc" "--userconfig" "C:\Users\acb\.atom\.apmrc" "install" "C:\Users\acb\AppData\Local\Temp\d-11851-9352-1updmjr.o0ups3jtt9\package.tgz" "--runtime=electron" "--target=1.7.15" "--arch=x64" "--global-style"
npm ERR! node v6.9.5
npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
npm ERR! file C:\Users\acbou.atom.apm\uuid\3.2.1\package\package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

npm ERR! Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token '\u0000' at 1:1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! File: C:\Users\acbou.atom.apm\uuid\3.2.1\package\package.json
npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

[BenRussert]

Is C:\Users\acbou.atom.apm\uuid\3.2.1\package\package.json a valid path? Looks like there is a missing backslash after C:\Users\acb\.... not sure what would cause that.

Are other packages installing correctly?

[jorys-paulin]

@BenRussert I have the same problem, also running Windows 10 and the latest version of Atom.
Here are my logs:

Installing hydrogen to C:\Users\pauli\.atom\packages failed

npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\pauli\\AppData\\Local\\atom\\app-1.28.0\\resources\\app\\apm\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\pauli\\AppData\\Local\\atom\\app-1.28.0\\resources\\app\\apm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "--globalconfig" "C:\\Users\\pauli\\.atom\\.apm\\.apmrc" "--userconfig" "C:\\Users\\pauli\\.atom\\.apmrc" "install" "C:\\Users\\pauli\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\d-118524-14072-1qtj8z8.7smglgcik9\\package.tgz" "--runtime=electron" "--target=2.0.3" "--arch=x64" "--global-style" "--msvs_version=2015"
npm ERR! node v6.9.5
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! file C:\Users\pauli\.atom\.apm\etch\0.12.8\package\package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

npm ERR! Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token '\u0000' at 1:1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! ^
npm ERR! File: C:\Users\pauli\.atom\.apm\etch\0.12.8\package\package.json
npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\pauli\AppData\Local\Temp\apm-install-dir-118524-14072-3cc06t.ky24mo0f6r\npm-debug.log

Note that the npm-debug.log file mentioned in the bottom doesn't exist, as for its parent directory

[acboulet]

I've been unable to reply but started playing with it tonight. I found this link which fixed my issue;

atom/apm#593

I followed it by deleting .apm
Followed by simply reinstalling hydrogen using apm install hydrogen

Hope this helps anyone having my issues.