vue-cli: “ERROR command failed: npm install --loglevel error” when trying to do “vue create”

Version

3.2.1

Environment info

  System:
    OS: Linux 4.18 Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)
    CPU: (1) x64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.30GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.14.1 - /usr/bin/node
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 6.4.1 - /usr/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: Not Found
    Firefox: Not Found
  npmPackages:
    @vue/babel-preset-app:  3.2.0 
    @vue/cli-overlay:  3.2.0 
    @vue/cli-plugin-babel: ^3.2.0 => 3.2.0 
    @vue/cli-plugin-eslint: ^3.2.0 => 3.2.1 
    @vue/cli-service: ^3.2.0 => 3.2.0 
    @vue/cli-shared-utils:  3.2.0 
    @vue/component-compiler-utils:  2.3.0 
    @vue/preload-webpack-plugin:  1.1.0 
    @vue/web-component-wrapper:  1.2.0 
    babel-helper-vue-jsx-merge-props:  2.0.3 
    babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx:  4.0.1 
    eslint-plugin-vue:  4.7.1 
    vue-eslint-parser:  2.0.3 
    vue-hot-reload-api:  2.3.1 
    vue-loader:  15.4.2 
    vue-style-loader:  4.1.2 
    vue-template-es2015-compiler:  1.6.0 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: 3.2.1

Steps to reproduce

vue create portfolio

What is expected?

Start a new Vue project.

What is actually happening?

Vue CLI v3.2.1
✨  Creating project in /home/mcaubrey511/portfolio.
🗃  Initializing git repository...
⚙  Installing CLI plugins. This might take a while...


> yorkie@2.0.0 install /home/mcaubrey511/portfolio/node_modules/yorkie
> node bin/install.js


ERROR  command failed: npm install --loglevel error

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 15
Comments: 25 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Closing this because the original issue is no longer reproducible, and the later ones are likely to be caused by permission issues https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/troubleshooting.html#running-installation-with-sudo-or-as-root

sodatea on Oct 14, 2019

I was having the same issue using Ubuntu 18.04, and could solve by uninstalling vue using NPM and then installing it again using YARN.

Commands to uninstall vue:

sudo npm uninstall -g vue
sudo npm uninstall -g vue-cli
sudo npm uninstall -g @vue/cli

Install yarn: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#debian-stable

Then proceed to create app vue create my-app and install the preset also using yarn.

cruzxxx on Aug 25, 2020

What worked for me:

Not trying to vue create projectname in a Google Drive “G:” drive directory.

Solution: runing vue create projectname in a C:\ drive directory.

I’m running Windows 10.

I hope this helps someone.

volantes on Apr 1, 2020

Having this same issue as well, already tried everything from https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/889

node: v8.11.2 npm: 6.5.0 osx: 10.13.6

tripflex on Dec 11, 2018

Closing this because the original issue is no longer reproducible, and the later ones are likely to be caused by permission issues https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/troubleshooting.html#running-installation-with-sudo-or-as-root

this is not working for me. Can you suggest any another way please

nikhilbhavsar5895 on Jul 20, 2020

I’m having the same problem with same error message too when trying to create new or run npm install in existing project. I’m using Node 11 within docker and until now never had any problems creating projects with vue-cli.

grgurev on Dec 9, 2018