npm fallback

[coreybutler]

The node.js JSON feed sometimes has bad data (see issue #211). NVM4W should provide a fallback to download the latest available version of npm if no other version is specified.

[coreybutler]

Related to issue nodejs/nodejs.org#969

[sidneys]

Should be fixed now, as documented in:
nodejs/build#519

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[coreybutler]

@sidneys - thanks for the update, and I'm glad to see it working.

I'm still going to leave this issue open because I think NVM4W needs to handle this scenario in case it happens again.

[nbarnwell]

Yeah so this is happening again with node 10.8.0. I'm going to have to ditch nvm and install node the old-fashioned way, since it doesn't look like this workaround is going to be implemented. Probably best to just close this issue if not.

[coreybutler]

@nbarnwell - cannot recreate.

[nZeus]

Cannot install 10.8.0.

Downloading npm version 6.2.0... Download failed. Rolling Back.                                                                                                      
Rollback failed. remove C:\Users\i.tsvetkov\AppData\Roaming\nvm\temp\npm-v6.2.0.zip: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. 
Could not download npm for node v10.8.0.                                                                                                                             
Please visit https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v6.2.0 to download npm.                                                                                         
It should be extracted to C:\Users\i.tsvetkov\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v10.8.0                                                                                            

If you go to https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/ there is no 6.2.0 available:

[nZeus]

Apparently nvm is trying to reach the wrong repo. It should use https://github.com/npm/cli/releases

[coreybutler]

@nZeus - Check your version of nvm. The npm repo changed, and NVM4W v1.1.7 uses the new URL.

[javlc]

Is there a command to upgrade nvm v1.17, or just re run the new installer?

[coreybutler]

@javlc https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows#installation--upgrades

[nagthgr8]

the issue still there with the latest 11.1.0

[coreybutler]

New repos and download URLs have been available for quite awhile and are integrated in newer versions of NVM4W. Closing (because I forgot to years ago).