Sinon: Unable to install sinon

[arankhem]

Describe the bug
Unable to install sinon.js from few days.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
run the following command
npm i sinon

Error:

npm i sinon
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for just-extend@^3.0.0
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! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'nise'
npm ERR! notarget
Expected behavior
sinon latest version should be installed.

Screenshots
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Context (please complete the following information):
Tried by installing other versions of sinon for example
npm i [email protected]

[arankhem]

@mantoni, can you help here please

[mroderick]

Please don’t tag maintainers in issues, we get plenty of e-mail already.

The issue you’re experiencing is most likely in your local system. Try clearing your npm cache and make sure your npm is a recent version. Older versions do not understand scopes

[arankhem]

Cleared npm cache using npm cache clean --force
verified npm cache using npm cache verify

Npm version on my machine is 6.4.1 (latest)

My local machine is window

Facing the same issue in other local machines as well

[promosjotte]

getting this:

npm install --save-dev sinon
npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '..."mochify":"^5.6.1","m'

[arankhem]

I am bit confused here

Latest version of just-extend is 1.1.27. see here

Below is the screenshot from semver version calculator

And here in nice we are using just-extend^3.0.0 in package.json

And when i am doing npm install just-extend@latest it is installing

• [email protected]
  updated 1 package in 17.501s

And when i am doing npm install nise@latest am getting below error (latest version is 1.4.4)

npm install nise@latest
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for just-extend@^3.0.0
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! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'nise

And when i am doing npm install [email protected] it is getting installed

• [email protected]
  added 7 packages from 14 contributors in 30.33s

Because here in [email protected] you are using [email protected].

@team, can you please correct this

[fatso83]

@arankhem The site you linked to, is not an official site. Probably an old internal mirror. I also suspect it's an internal HP site (where you work?) since I cannot connect to it. Use the official site, npmjs.com, to see version 3, released 3 weeks ago. Also, the semver calculator is clearly showing it to the left.

If your NPM has problems finding it, I suspect your local settings is at fault. Maybe you or your local administrator has overridden the NPM main registry setting (pointing it to the HPE site?). No idea. I can't debug a Windows installation or a package to which I don't have access. Otherwise, please see https://github.com/sinonjs/nise/issues/64#issuecomment-419221001

@promosjotte are you also running Windows? We need to find what is in common. Usually, issues like this are fixed by removing node_modules and running npm install again. None of our builds have failed due to this, but two reports on the same issue might point to a Windows issue, if that is a common nominator.

[fatso83]

Also, the both of you; have you tried removing node_modules and reinstalling?

[fatso83]

OK, tried this on a fresh Windows Server 2016 install. No problems. Installed with flying colors. Closed as cannot reproduce. I would inspect your local machines and/or any overrides for NPM registries. Try to redo the steps in a non-corporate environment, with a clean slate (mkdir tmp; cd tmp; npm init; npm i nise;)

[arankhem]

Can you remove that hpe link please i posted here by mistake. I have updated the link in my comment

[mroderick]

I have edited @fatso83's comment to remove the link