"ncu -g" returns error "Expected JSON from "npm ls --json --global". Received empty response."

[manuelgarciacr]

• I have searched for similar issues
• Node version: v18.20.4

• ncu version latest

  Hardware information:

• Model: Dell Inc. Latitude E6540
• Memory: 16,0 GiB
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ × 8
• Grphics: Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
• Graphics 1: OLAND
• Disc: 960,2 GB

Software information:

• Firmware version: A27
• SO name: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
• SO Construction: (null)
• SO type: 64 bits
• GNOME version: 46
• Windows system: X11
• Kernel version: Linux 6.8.0-47-generic

Current Behavior

$ ncu --verbose -g Initializing

Options: { args: [], cacheExpiration: 10, cacheFile: '~/.ncu-cache.json', cli: true, concurrency: 8, deep: false, dep: [ 'prod', 'dev', 'optional', 'packageManager' ], deprecated: true, errorLevel: 1, format: [], global: true, install: 'prompt', json: false, loglevel: 'verbose', minimal: false, packageManager: 'npm', registryType: 'npm', retry: 3, root: true, target: 'latest', verbose: true, workspace: [] }

Getting installed packages Expected JSON from "npm ls --json --global". Received empty response.

Expected Behavior

Check the latest versions of all global project dependencies:

[raineorshine]

I will need a list of your global dependencies to reproduce.

npm ls -g