Unable to install with npm install about node-red-contrib-home-assistant HOT 6 CLOSED

This works for me with both npm and yarn, what version of npm are you using?

~/.ay/test is 📦 v1.0.0 via ⬢ v9.5.0 took 6s
➜ npm -v
5.6.0

~/.ay/test is 📦 v1.0.0 via ⬢ v9.5.0
➜ yarn -v
1.3.2

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I'm using Debian unstable packaged version of npm (and all dependecies).
Version of npm is visible in the output above and I believe it's 1.4.12 (latest available as packaged by Debian):
apt show npm
Package: npm
Version: 1.4.21+ds-2
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers [email protected]
Installed-Size: 1,915 kB
Depends: nodejs, node-abbrev (>= 1.0.4), node-ansi (>= 0.3.0-2), node-ansi-color-table, node-archy, node-block-stream, node-fstream (>= 0.1.22), node-fstream-ignore, node-github-url-from-git, node-glob (>= 3.1.21), node-graceful-fs (>= 2.0.0), node-inherits, node-ini (>= 1.1.0), node-lockfile, node-lru-cache (>= 2.3.0), node-minimatch (>= 0.2.11), node-mkdirp (>= 0.3.3), node-gyp (>= 0.10.9), node-nopt (>= 3.0.1), node-npmlog, node-once, node-osenv, node-read, node-read-package-json (>= 1.1.0), node-request (>= 2.25.0), node-retry, node-rimraf (>= 2.2.2), node-semver (>= 2.1.0), node-sha, node-slide, node-tar (>= 0.1.18), node-underscore, node-which
Homepage: http://github.com/isaacs/npm
Download-Size: 354 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
Description: package manager for Node.js
Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.
.
npm is the package manager for the Node JavaScript platform. It puts
modules in place so that node can find them, and manages dependency
conflicts intelligently.
.
It is extremely configurable to support a wide variety of use cases.
Most commonly, it is used to publish, discover, install, and develop
node programs.

Some weeks ago I had this up'n'running on other computer (also Debian unstable). I was using previous version of your package (sorry don't recall exact number ; it had to be some 1-1.5 month ago). I've removed all on that one and wanted to start toying on more appropriate machine

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So I suspect this is an issue with your version of npm not handling commit'ish tags in the package.json file. You should either install the latest npm or yarn version and use those, depending on how your PATH is setup npm -ig npm@latest may work for you to easily upgrade npm. If upgrading npm is not an option than you can just clone this repo, remove the line for the node-red dependency in package.json then run npm link in the cloned directory and npm link node-red-contrib-home-assistant in the directory you'd normally npm install in. Hopefully upgrading the package manager will be easy for you as the second is just a hack ;o)

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Thx
I'll try the first route and report back :)

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It worked :) It's bit messy cause now I have 2 npms. I'll figure out if I can safely remove the one provided by Debian later.
In case someone bumps here: proper command to install was npm install -g npm@latest and make sure you have git installed too.
Thx for help :)

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