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Whenever I update Node with nvm, npm is no longer available.

  1. nvm install 14.19.3 > It says it's also downloading and installing npm.
  2. npm > Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js'
  3. Looking in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v14.19.3, the subfolder node_modules is empty. It doesn't seem to have installed npm along with nvm, even though there was no error upon nvm install 14.19.3.

From this post I understand the cause of a problem like this generally is a conflict in the environment variables of the OS (I'm using VSC on a Windows 10 machine).

But I can't find anything wrong there: PATH includes NVM_HOME and NVM_SYMLINK, which respectively point to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\nvm and C:\Program Files\nodejs.

How can I get this new version of Node to work?

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I had to update my nvm for windows version (from 1.1.7 to 1.1.9).

After this I uninstalled the Node version and installed it again with the new nvm version. Now it did install NPM along with Node.

nvm use 14.20.0 (the new Node version I installed) gave an error however:

exit status 5: Access is denied.

Running the terminal / Visual Studio Code with administrator privilages solved this issue and I was able to successfully switch Node versions.

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Sweet! Glad you've got that sorted.
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Shouldn't the NVM_SYMLINK point to %AppData%\npm or C:\Users\Username\AppData\npm?

Have you tried to: nvm install-latest-npm or nvm install --latest-npm?

Also check it out this answer as it may help.

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I think NVM_SYMLINK is correct, especially since npm does work for the already installed Node versions. The different Node versions are located in subfolders inside C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\nvm\ . The Node versions for which npm works has for example ...\nvm\9.8.0\node_modules\ with npm and nodemon etc. inside that folder. But for newly installed Node versions that node_modules folder, while it does exist, is empty.
nvm install --latest-npm returns Node.js vlatest-npm.0.0 is only available in 32-bit.
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Other solution is to install it manually, but i think the problem is with nvm version 1.1.7 :

Go to https://nodejs.org/dist/ and download the nodejs version you want Copy files inside nvm nodejs folder, to get the folder path run "nvm root"

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Another solution was to just pick another Node version. I am not sure for a particular reason but I used via NVM at least 4 different version and they are all fine. Only the following version 14.17.0 seems buggy.

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