Angular-cli: error Invalid tar header. Maybe the tar is corrupted or it needs to be gunzipped?

[trickpattyFH20]

closing because I can only recreate while in a specific existing angular project
attempting to install angular CLI globally from an empty sibling directory of this project works

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Versions.

node --version v8.1.1
npm --version 5.0.3
OSX El Capitan 10.11.6

Repro steps.

1. use node 8.1.1 and npm 5.0.3
2. try to install @angular cli globally (npm i -g @angular/cli)

The log given by the failure.

npm ERR! Invalid tar header. Maybe the tar is corrupted or it needs to be gunzipped?

stack trace (click to expand)

11165 verbose stack Error: Invalid tar header. Maybe the tar is corrupted or it needs to be gunzipped?
11165 verbose stack at Object.exports.decode (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/tar-stream/headers.js:270:43)
11165 verbose stack at Extract.onheader [as _onparse] (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/tar-stream/extract.js:120:39)
11165 verbose stack at Extract._write (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/tar-stream/extract.js:243:8)
11165 verbose stack at doWrite (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:337:64)
11165 verbose stack at writeOrBuffer (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:326:5)
11165 verbose stack at Extract.Writable.write (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:263:11)
11165 verbose stack at Duplexify.ondata (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:540:20)
11165 verbose stack at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
11165 verbose stack at Duplexify.emit (events.js:210:7)
11165 verbose stack at readableAddChunk (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:211:18)
11165 verbose stack at Duplexify.Readable.push (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:170:10)
11165 verbose stack at Duplexify._forward (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mississippi/node_modules/duplexify/index.js:163:26)
11165 verbose stack at DestroyableTransform.onreadable (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mississippi/node_modules/duplexify/index.js:127:10)
11165 verbose stack at emitNone (events.js:105:13)
11165 verbose stack at DestroyableTransform.emit (events.js:207:7)
11165 verbose stack at emitReadable_ (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:428:10)
11165 verbose stack at emitReadable (/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:422:65)
11166 verbose cwd /Users/plawler/Documents/AtomProjects/localDev/clientdashboard
11167 verbose Darwin 15.6.0
11168 verbose argv "/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/bin/node" "/Users/plawler/.nvm/versions/node/v8.1.1/bin/npm" "i" "-g" "@angular/cli"
11169 verbose node v8.1.1
11170 verbose npm v5.0.3
11171 error Invalid tar header. Maybe the tar is corrupted or it needs to be gunzipped?
11172 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Desired functionality.

global installation of angular cli working

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[trickpattyFH20]

This issue went away after I deleted ~/.npmrc and uninstalled + reinstalled this version of node (using nvm)

[RavirajParab]

Could you please provide the detailed steps of how you resolved the issue. I am stuck

[trickpattyFH20]

1. delete node_modules/ in your project folder
2. delete ~/.npmrc
3. uninstall nodejs and npm
4. reinstall the latest nodejs and npm

(I am using nvm to manage my nodejs and npm installations, if you are using nvm then the last two steps are easy, if you did a manual installation, then the last two steps are a little more difficult. I recommend using nvm and removing any manually installed versions of nodejs and npm anyways)

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