Unable to install npm packages

[praisedare]

Problem description

I got the latest version of termux from f-droid, and now I can't install npm packages. This is the error I get:

FetchError: invalid json response body at https://registry.npmjs.org/cookie-parser
reason: Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/cookie-parser: 
EACCES: permission denied, link '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.npm/_cacache/tmp/0b56d70b' -> '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/46/59/c4dbad934776e85ea9d0ec5bbe71a8e80eeff6b2dc8bff5267224a2dae2b6b7767bc0fc988e05553e8885b697c3d2310741c5b7ff1c67ea8fcf6f376ccd2'

I tried adding read and write permissions for everyone with chmod but I'm still getting the same error. And no I'm not rooted, so I can't run npm as superuser.

Steps to reproduce the behavior.

# cd into any node app and run
npm install

### What is the expected behavior?

Should successfully install npm packages

### System information

* Termux application version: 118
* Android OS version: 10
* Device model: Tecno KC8

[luisdavim]

I think you should report this in there termux packages repo not here. Meanwhile, try uninstalling npm, remove that folder from your home directory and then install again.

[sylirre]

Duplicate of termux/termux-packages#13293.

npm tries to make a hardlink which on Android requires SELinux to be put in permissive mode or root user shell.

One of possible workarounds could be use of PRoot, example:

proot --link2symlink npm install <your package>