Installation fails, due to missing commander@^11.0.0

[navid-zamani]

Code editor

Kate

Platform

Linux/SystemD/Mint 22 (=…/Ubuntu 24)

Version

(impossible)

What steps will reproduce the bug?

npm i -g bash-language-server

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Always

What is the expected behavior?

Installation of bash-language-server, according to the README.md.

What do you see instead?

npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for commander@^11.0.0.
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/[private]/.npm/_logs/2024-09-24T10_37_57_975Z-debug-0.log

Additional information

Hi, I cannot tell from this, if commander is supposed to be a npm package or something expected from my OS package manager. (I’m not into JS.)

I presumed that it’s an npm package and npm is expected to find, download and install it if required, but this package here has a dependency for a version that does not exist (anymore?).
(I’m surprised that a package with a missing dependency can even enter the package repository though, so above presumption may be wrong(?).)

A deb package named node-commander is installed here, but in version 9.4.1-1. I don’t know if that’s what is meant…

[navid-zamani]

Here’s the complete log file /home/[private]/.npm/_logs/2024-09-24T10_37_57_975Z-debug-0.log:

0 verbose cli /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/npm
1 info using npm@9.2.0
2 info using node@v18.19.1
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms
4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 2ms
5 timing config:load:file:/usr/share/nodejs/npm/npmrc Completed in 3ms
6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 3ms
7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 2ms
8 timing config:load:env Completed in 1ms
9 timing config:load:project Completed in 1ms
10 timing config:load:file:/home/[private]/.npmrc Completed in 0ms
11 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms
12 timing config:load:file:/etc/npmrc Completed in 0ms
13 timing config:load:global Completed in 0ms
14 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 2ms
15 timing config:load Completed in 12ms
16 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 12ms
17 timing npm:load:mkdirpcache Completed in 0ms
18 timing npm:load:mkdirplogs Completed in 0ms
19 verbose title npm i bash-language-server
20 verbose argv "i" "--global" "bash-language-server"
21 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 2ms
22 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 3ms
23 timing npm:load:display Completed in 4ms
24 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:/home/[private]/.npm/_logs/2024-09-24T10_36_09_734Z-
25 verbose logfile /home/[private]/.npm/_logs/2024-09-24T10_36_09_734Z-debug-0.log
26 timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 10ms
27 timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms
28 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
29 timing npm:load Completed in 29ms
30 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 0ms
31 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 1ms
32 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 1 files
33 silly logfile done cleaning log files
34 timing idealTree:init Completed in 9ms
35 timing idealTree:userRequests Completed in 5ms
36 silly idealTree buildDeps
37 silly fetch manifest bash-language-server@*
38 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bash-language-server 195ms (cache miss)
39 silly placeDep ROOT bash-language-server@5.4.0 OK for:  want: *
40 silly fetch manifest editorconfig@2.0.0
41 silly fetch manifest fast-glob@3.3.2
42 silly fetch manifest fuzzy-search@3.2.1
43 silly fetch manifest node-fetch@2.7.0
44 silly fetch manifest turndown@7.1.3
45 silly fetch manifest vscode-languageserver@8.0.2
46 silly fetch manifest vscode-languageserver-textdocument@1.0.11
47 silly fetch manifest web-tree-sitter@0.22.5
48 silly fetch manifest zod@3.22.4
49 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/editorconfig 51ms (cache miss)
50 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/turndown 86ms (cache miss)
51 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-glob 92ms (cache miss)
52 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vscode-languageserver-textdocument 96ms (cache miss)
53 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-fetch 109ms (cache miss)
54 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/web-tree-sitter 138ms (cache miss)
55 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vscode-languageserver 146ms (cache miss)
56 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/zod 164ms (cache miss)
57 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fuzzy-search 580ms (cache miss)
58 timing idealTree:#root Completed in 796ms
59 silly fetch manifest encoding@^0.1.0
60 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/encoding 47ms (cache miss)
61 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server editorconfig@2.0.0 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 2.0.0
62 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server fast-glob@3.3.2 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 3.3.2
63 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server fuzzy-search@3.2.1 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 3.2.1
64 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server node-fetch@2.7.0 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 2.7.0
65 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server turndown@7.1.3 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 7.1.3
66 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server vscode-languageserver@8.0.2 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 8.0.2
67 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server vscode-languageserver-textdocument@1.0.11 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 1.0.11
68 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server web-tree-sitter@0.22.5 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 0.22.5
69 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server zod@3.22.4 OK for: bash-language-server@5.4.0 want: 3.22.4
70 silly fetch manifest @one-ini/wasm@0.1.1
71 silly fetch manifest commander@^11.0.0
72 silly fetch manifest minimatch@9.0.2
73 silly fetch manifest semver@^7.5.3
74 silly fetch manifest @nodelib/fs.stat@^2.0.2
75 silly fetch manifest @nodelib/fs.walk@^1.2.3
76 silly fetch manifest glob-parent@^5.1.2
77 silly fetch manifest merge2@^1.3.0
78 silly fetch manifest micromatch@^4.0.4
79 silly fetch manifest whatwg-url@^5.0.0
80 silly fetch manifest domino@^2.1.6
81 silly fetch manifest vscode-languageserver-protocol@3.17.2
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83 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/commander 38ms (cache stale)
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86 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/domino 65ms (cache miss)
87 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/micromatch 72ms (cache miss)
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89 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@nodelib%2ffs.stat 81ms (cache miss)
90 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/merge2 82ms (cache miss)
91 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vscode-languageserver-protocol 84ms (cache miss)
92 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/whatwg-url 86ms (cache miss)
93 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@one-ini%2fwasm 130ms (cache miss)
94 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server Completed in 209ms
95 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server @one-ini/wasm@0.1.1 OK for: editorconfig@2.0.0 want: 0.1.1
96 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/editorconfig commander@ OK for: editorconfig@2.0.0 want: ^11.0.0
97 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/editorconfig minimatch@ OK for: editorconfig@2.0.0 want: 9.0.2
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105 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server micromatch@4.0.8 OK for: fast-glob@3.3.2 want: ^4.0.4
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108 silly fetch manifest is-glob@^4.0.1
109 silly fetch manifest braces@^3.0.3
110 silly fetch manifest picomatch@^2.3.1
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112 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/braces 45ms (cache miss)
113 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fastq 49ms (cache miss)
114 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/picomatch 48ms (cache miss)
115 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@nodelib%2ffs.scandir 69ms (cache miss)
116 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/fast-glob Completed in 77ms
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118 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server @nodelib/fs.scandir@2.1.5 OK for: @nodelib/fs.walk@1.2.8 want: 2.1.5
119 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server fastq@1.17.1 OK for: @nodelib/fs.walk@1.2.8 want: ^1.6.0
120 silly fetch manifest run-parallel@^1.1.9
121 silly fetch manifest reusify@^1.0.4
122 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/run-parallel 35ms (cache miss)
123 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/reusify 44ms (cache miss)
124 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/@nodelib/fs.walk Completed in 51ms
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128 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/@nodelib/fs.scandir Completed in 41ms
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144 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/micromatch Completed in 51ms
145 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server fill-range@7.1.1 OK for: braces@3.0.3 want: ^7.1.1
146 silly fetch manifest to-regex-range@^5.0.1
147 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/to-regex-range 36ms (cache miss)
148 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/braces Completed in 40ms
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150 silly fetch manifest is-number@^7.0.0
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152 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/fill-range Completed in 47ms
153 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server whatwg-url@5.0.0 OK for: node-fetch@2.7.0 want: ^5.0.0
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155 silly fetch manifest webidl-conversions@^3.0.0
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157 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/webidl-conversions 40ms (cache miss)
158 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/node-fetch Completed in 48ms
159 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/picomatch Completed in 0ms
160 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/reusify Completed in 0ms
161 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server queue-microtask@1.2.3 OK for: run-parallel@1.2.0 want: ^1.2.2
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163 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/queue-microtask Completed in 0ms
164 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/semver Completed in 0ms
165 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server is-number@7.0.0 OK for: to-regex-range@5.0.1 want: ^7.0.0
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167 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/is-number Completed in 0ms
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169 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/turndown Completed in 3ms
170 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/domino Completed in 0ms
171 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server vscode-languageserver-protocol@3.17.2 OK for: vscode-languageserver@8.0.2 want: 3.17.2
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180 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/vscode-jsonrpc Completed in 0ms
181 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/vscode-languageserver-textdocument Completed in 0ms
182 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/vscode-languageserver-types Completed in 0ms
183 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/web-tree-sitter Completed in 0ms
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185 silly placeDep node_modules/bash-language-server webidl-conversions@3.0.1 OK for: whatwg-url@5.0.0 want: ^3.0.0
186 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/whatwg-url Completed in 2ms
187 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/tr46 Completed in 0ms
188 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/webidl-conversions Completed in 0ms
189 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/zod Completed in 0ms
190 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/editorconfig/node_modules/commander Completed in 0ms
191 timing idealTree:node_modules/bash-language-server/node_modules/editorconfig/node_modules/minimatch Completed in 0ms
192 timing idealTree:buildDeps Completed in 1506ms
193 timing idealTree:fixDepFlags Completed in 1ms
194 timing idealTree Completed in 1522ms
195 timing command:i Completed in 1534ms
196 verbose type range
197 verbose stack commander: No matching version found for commander@^11.0.0.
197 verbose stack     at module.exports (/usr/share/nodejs/npm/node_modules/npm-pick-manifest/lib/index.js:209:23)
197 verbose stack     at RegistryFetcher.manifest (/usr/share/nodejs/pacote/lib/registry.js:117:22)
197 verbose stack     at async Promise.all (index 1)
197 verbose stack     at async [buildDepStep] (/usr/share/nodejs/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:1043:5)
197 verbose stack     at async Arborist.buildIdealTree (/usr/share/nodejs/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js:206:7)
197 verbose stack     at async Arborist.reify (/usr/share/nodejs/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:156:5)
197 verbose stack     at async Install.exec (/usr/share/nodejs/npm/lib/commands/install.js:146:5)
197 verbose stack     at async module.exports (/usr/share/nodejs/npm/lib/cli.js:133:5)
198 verbose cwd /home/[private]
199 verbose Linux 6.8.0-45-generic
200 verbose node v18.19.1
201 verbose npm  v9.2.0
202 error code ETARGET
203 error notarget No matching version found for commander@^11.0.0.
204 error notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
204 error notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
205 verbose exit 1
206 timing npm Completed in 1588ms
207 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1727174169787
208 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:loadTrees 1727174169793
209 verbose code 1
210 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
210 error     /home/[private]/.npm/_logs/2024-09-24T10_36_09_734Z-debug-0.log

[navid-zamani]

Hmm, by running …

sudo npm i -g commander
sudo npm i -g bash-language-server

… I could install version 5.4.0. Without sudo it said:

npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!  [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'] {
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'mkdir',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/navid/.npm/_logs/2024-09-24T10_53_00_498Z-debug-0.log

I would have preferred not circumventing my OS’s package manager when installing packages, so this is only a temporary workaround,
and a solution is still needed…

(I know, this is Mint, which always is based on the LTS version of Ubuntu, and so packages are generally a bit outdated. But Mint is quite popular, so… I don’t know if you want to handle this, or not bother. :)