apm upgrade: Failed to change folder ownership under npm cache
If you meet errors similar to the following one while upgrading [apm] packages via command line:
npm ERR! Failed to change folder ownership under npm cache for %s /Users/Chris/.atom/.node-gyp/.atom/.apm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-Glavin001-Coffee-Formatter-git-41cd2663
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, readdir '/Users/Chris/.atom/.node-gyp/.atom/.apm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-Glavin001-Coffee-Formatter-git-41cd2663/description'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
Its mostly just because of there are not just one versions of node-gyp
under ~/.atom/.node-gyp
.
In my case, there were 3 versions:
ls ~/.atom/.node-gyp/.node-gyp
0.11.10 0.11.13 0.17.0
The way to fix this issue is very simple, just run the following command to force [Atom] to recreate .node-gyp
folder:
rm -dr ~/.atom/.node-gyp
Now, apm upgrade
works again.
[Atom]: https://atom.io/
[apm]: https://github.com/atom/apm