Could not install multer via NPM.

[manishprajapatidev]

This is my error log file. saying some error in parsing json.

0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe', 1 verbose cli 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js', 1 verbose cli 'install', 1 verbose cli '--save', 1 verbose cli 'multer' ] 2 info using npm@5.6.0 3 info using node@v10.0.0 4 verbose npm-session 042121868ae951be 5 silly install loadCurrentTree 6 silly install readLocalPackageData 7 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/multer 4035ms (from cache) 8 silly pacote tag manifest for multer@latest fetched in 4104ms 9 silly install loadIdealTree 10 silly install cloneCurrentTreeToIdealTree 11 silly install loadShrinkwrap 12 silly install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree 13 silly resolveWithNewModule multer@1.3.1 checking installable status 14 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/append-field 1189ms (from cache) 15 silly pacote range manifest for append-field@^0.1.0 fetched in 1197ms 16 silly resolveWithNewModule append-field@0.1.0 checking installable status 17 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/busboy 3751ms (from cache) 18 silly pacote range manifest for busboy@^0.2.11 fetched in 3756ms 19 silly resolveWithNewModule busboy@0.2.14 checking installable status 20 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/concat-stream 3759ms (from cache) 21 silly pacote range manifest for concat-stream@^1.5.2 fetched in 3762ms 22 silly resolveWithNewModule concat-stream@1.6.2 checking installable status 23 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/xtend 3862ms (from cache) 24 silly pacote range manifest for xtend@^4.0.0 fetched in 3870ms 25 silly resolveWithNewModule xtend@4.0.1 checking installable status 26 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp 3895ms (from cache) 27 silly pacote range manifest for mkdirp@^0.5.1 fetched in 3903ms 28 silly resolveWithNewModule mkdirp@0.5.1 checking installable status 29 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/object-assign 3927ms (from cache) 30 silly pacote range manifest for object-assign@^3.0.0 fetched in 3933ms 31 silly resolveWithNewModule object-assign@3.0.0 checking installable status 32 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/dicer 1402ms (from cache) 33 silly pacote version manifest for dicer@0.2.5 fetched in 1408ms 34 silly resolveWithNewModule dicer@0.2.5 checking installable status 35 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/readable-stream 1461ms (from cache) 36 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for readable-stream@1.1.x Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...":"readable-stream","' 37 silly saveTree mongo@0.0.0 37 silly saveTree +-- cookie-parser@1.4.3 37 silly saveTree | +-- cookie-signature@1.0.6 37 silly saveTree | -- cookie@0.3.1 37 silly saveTree +-- debug@2.6.9 37 silly saveTree |-- ms@2.0.0 37 silly saveTree +-- ejs@2.5.9 37 silly saveTree +-- express@4.16.3 37 silly saveTree | +-- accepts@1.3.5 37 silly saveTree | | +-- mime-types@2.1.18 37 silly saveTree | | | -- mime-db@1.33.0 37 silly saveTree | |-- negotiator@0.6.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- array-flatten@1.1.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- body-parser@1.18.2 37 silly saveTree | | +-- bytes@3.0.0 37 silly saveTree | | +-- content-type@1.0.4 37 silly saveTree | | +-- depd@1.1.2 37 silly saveTree | | +-- http-errors@1.6.3 37 silly saveTree | | | +-- inherits@2.0.3 37 silly saveTree | | | +-- setprototypeof@1.1.0 37 silly saveTree | | | -- statuses@1.4.0 37 silly saveTree | | +-- iconv-lite@0.4.19 37 silly saveTree | | +-- on-finished@2.3.0 37 silly saveTree | | |-- ee-first@1.1.1 37 silly saveTree | | +-- qs@6.5.1 37 silly saveTree | | +-- raw-body@2.3.2 37 silly saveTree | | | +-- http-errors@1.6.2 37 silly saveTree | | | | +-- depd@1.1.1 37 silly saveTree | | | | -- setprototypeof@1.0.3 37 silly saveTree | | |-- unpipe@1.0.0 37 silly saveTree | | -- type-is@1.6.16 37 silly saveTree | |-- media-typer@0.3.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- content-disposition@0.5.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- content-type@1.0.4 37 silly saveTree | +-- depd@1.1.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- encodeurl@1.0.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- escape-html@1.0.3 37 silly saveTree | +-- etag@1.8.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- finalhandler@1.1.1 37 silly saveTree | | -- parseurl@1.3.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- fresh@0.5.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- merge-descriptors@1.0.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- methods@1.1.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- on-finished@2.3.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- parseurl@1.3.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- path-to-regexp@0.1.7 37 silly saveTree | +-- proxy-addr@2.0.3 37 silly saveTree | | +-- forwarded@0.1.2 37 silly saveTree | |-- ipaddr.js@1.6.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- qs@6.5.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- range-parser@1.2.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- safe-buffer@5.1.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- send@0.16.2 37 silly saveTree | | +-- destroy@1.0.4 37 silly saveTree | | -- mime@1.4.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- serve-static@1.13.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- setprototypeof@1.1.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- statuses@1.4.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- type-is@1.6.16 37 silly saveTree | +-- utils-merge@1.0.1 37 silly saveTree |-- vary@1.1.2 37 silly saveTree +-- http-errors@1.6.3 37 silly saveTree +-- mongoose@5.1.6 37 silly saveTree | +-- async@2.6.1 37 silly saveTree | | -- lodash@4.17.10 37 silly saveTree | +-- bson@1.0.9 37 silly saveTree | +-- kareem@2.2.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- lodash.get@4.4.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- mongodb@3.0.10 37 silly saveTree | |-- mongodb-core@3.0.9 37 silly saveTree | | -- require_optional@1.0.1 37 silly saveTree | | +-- resolve-from@2.0.0 37 silly saveTree | |-- semver@5.5.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- mongoose-legacy-pluralize@1.0.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- mpath@0.4.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- mquery@3.0.0 37 silly saveTree | | +-- bluebird@3.5.0 37 silly saveTree | | +-- regexp-clone@0.0.1 37 silly saveTree | | -- sliced@0.0.5 37 silly saveTree | +-- regexp-clone@0.0.1 37 silly saveTree |-- sliced@1.0.1 37 silly saveTree +-- morgan@1.9.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- basic-auth@2.0.0 37 silly saveTree | -- on-headers@1.0.1 37 silly saveTree +-- multer@1.3.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- append-field@0.1.0 37 silly saveTree | +-- busboy@0.2.14 37 silly saveTree | |-- dicer@0.2.5 37 silly saveTree | +-- concat-stream@1.6.2 37 silly saveTree | +-- mkdirp@0.5.1 37 silly saveTree | +-- object-assign@3.0.0 37 silly saveTree | -- xtend@4.0.1 37 silly saveTree-- node-cron@1.2.1 38 verbose stack SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...":"readable-stream","' 38 verbose stack at JSON.parse () 38 verbose stack at parseJson (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\pacote\node_modules\make-fetch-happen\node_modules\node-fetch-npm\node_modules\json-parse-better-errors\index.js:7:17) 38 verbose stack at consumeBody.call.then.buffer (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\pacote\node_modules\make-fetch-happen\node_modules\node-fetch-npm\src\body.js:96:50) 38 verbose stack at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:178:7) 39 verbose cwd E:\mongo 40 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.16299 41 verbose argv "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "--save" "multer" 42 verbose node v10.0.0 43 verbose npm v5.6.0 44 error Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...":"readable-stream","' 45 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[LinusU]

Could it be that your package.json is malformed?

[manishprajapatidev]

Issue is solved. Clearing npm cache fixed my problem. npm cache clean --force

[prasadInnovate369]

npm cache clean --force

not worked