npm install fails 404 Not Found because of dependency's broken colors package

[erikrenberg]

• I have searched for similar issues
• I am using the latest version of npm-check-updates
• I am using node >= 12

npm install currently doesn't work to install npm-check-updates:
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/colors/-/colors-1.4.2.tgz - Not found

The cause is that npm-check-updates has a dependency cli-table that currently tries to bring in a broken colors 1.4.2 package from NPM. This explains the issue: https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-npm-packages-colors-faker/

Here are the dependencies:

└─┬ [email protected]
  └─┬ [email protected]
    └── [email protected]

When/if cli-table is fixed that should fix this issue I guess.

For now I know I can remove npm-check-updates temporarily from the dev-dependencies to work around it.

[raineorshine]

Thank you for documenting this! Hopefully cli-table merges the PR very soon some day. I will continue watching closely.

[raineorshine]

Looks like cli-table has been abandoned. I've switched to cli-table3 which does not depend on colors.

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