npm 8.6, authorization header missing & symlink problem

Hello,

I can’t install npm 8.6.0, which is the recommanded version by node doctor. When using nodist global npm 8.6 :

npm 8.6
{"message":"Must specify access token via Authorization header.
https://developer.github.com/changes/2020-02-10-deprecating-auth-through-query-param","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/v3/#oauth2-token-sent-in-a-header"}.
Sorry.

I’ve got no problem with previous versions. The latest installable version is 8.5.5 (match with node 17.8.0).

If I use the official command npm install -g npm@8.6.0, it installs but can’t be used (npm -v still return 8.5.5).

Another bug : the symlinks created automatically in npmv/8.5.5/nodes-modules were not working on my Windows 10 system, I don’t know why. I had to recreate them to have npm working as expected. Same for the ``` arborist ```` symlink in @npmcli.

If you need more infos on the specs of my computer, please ask.

Cheers !

[nicomeunier]

As a quick fix just after doing nodist npm match|<version>, it’s to manually fix the wrong symlinks. Pre-requisite: Windows should be configured in developer mode to avoid administration rights.

nodist npm match
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\npmv\8.11.0\node_modules
rm @npmcli\arborist && mklink /D @npmcli\arborist ..\..\workspaces\arborist
rm libnpmaccess  && mklink /D libnpmaccess ..\workspaces\libnpmaccess
rm libnpmdiff    && mklink /D libnpmdiff ..\workspaces\libnpmdiff
rm libnpmexec    && mklink /D libnpmexec ..\workspaces\libnpmexec
rm libnpmfund    && mklink /D libnpmfund ..\workspaces\libnpmfund
rm libnpmhook    && mklink /D libnpmhook ..\workspaces\libnpmhook
rm libnpmorg     && mklink /D libnpmorg ..\workspaces\libnpmorg
rm libnpmpack    && mklink /D libnpmpack ..\workspaces\libnpmpack
rm libnpmpublish && mklink /D libnpmpublish ..\workspaces\libnpmpublish
rm libnpmsearch  && mklink /D libnpmsearch ..\workspaces\libnpmsearch
rm libnpmteam    && mklink /D libnpmteam ..\workspaces\libnpmteam
rm libnpmversion && mklink /D libnpmversion ..\workspaces\libnpmversion

That is because the tar lib used by nodist seems to not create correctly symlink about directories on Windows when extracting https://codeload.github.com/npm/cli/tar.gz/v8.11.0

[joelparks]

I had a similar error message starting from scratch with nodist - I typed “nodist add 16” and it installed 11.13.0 and 16.14.2 “nodist npm” and it reported npm 6.9.0 (which doesn’t work with node 16) “nodist 16” and it switched to 16 “nodist npm 8.5.5” and it reported {“message”:“Must specify access token via Authorization header. https://developer.github.com/changes/2020-02-10-deprecating-auth-through-query-param",“documentation_url”:"https://docs.github.com/v3/#oauth2-token-sent-in-a-header”}. Sorry.

(I really like the “Sorry” part 😉

the workaround I finally learned about was " nodist npm global match " which eventually finished successfully. Now typing “nodist npm” reports 6.9.0 and 8.5.0 with 8.5.0 active.
Now I’m getting what seems to be an unrelated error: “Error: Cannot find module ‘libnpmfund’”

Edit: I guess it’s not an unrelated error, it seems the install of @npmcli/arborist as part of npm 8.5.0 didn’t actually succeed but wasn’t reported. Now I don’t seem to be able to recover npm 8.5.0 or fix the install.