[SOLVED] Package endless update

[fmolina2b]

Dears,
The package npm-10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64 , at least for me, appears endlessly for update: it appears in the software manager (MCC), I click to update, no error is shown, and it appears again, and again ...
Trying urpmi gives that:

[root@Octopus fernando]# urpmi --update npm-10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64


$MIRRORLIST: media/core/updates/npm-10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64.rpm
instalando npm-10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64.rpm desde /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparando... ###################################################################################
1/1: npm ###################################################################################
error: falló el desempaquetado de archivos en archivo/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/docs;69cd25c3: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system
ERROR: 'unpack' failed for npm-1:10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64
error: npm-1:10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64: instalar falló
error: npm-1:10.9.4-1.22.22.0.1.mga9.x86_64: borrar ignorado

Of course, it is only a nuisance, nothing more, but shouldn´t occur.
Best

Linux Octopus 6.6.120-desktop-1.mga9 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 14 01:59:53 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[doktor5000]

I click to update, no error is shown, and it appears again, and again ...

MCC shows the same errors as urpmi, and in your output the error is pretty clearly shown.
It does not appear again and again, it is always the same package because it never installed successfully due to the error shown.

1/1: npm ###################################################################################
error: falló el desempaquetado de archivos en archivo/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/docs;69cd25c3: cpio: File from package already exists as a directory in system
ERROR: 'unpack' failed for npm-1:10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64
error: npm-1:10.9.7-1.22.22.2.1.mga9.x86_64: instalar falló
error: npm-1:10.9.4-1.22.22.0.1.mga9.x86_64: borrar ignorado

Clear your package cache, if the problem persists then open a bugreport, as this might be a packaging error.
See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/pa ... placement/

[doktor5000]

FWIW, this has already been reported: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33601

[fmolina2b]

After

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rm -fr /usr/lib/node_modules/npm


and

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urpmi npm

Things seem fixed.
But I saw the error only in the console, the MCC Gui did not show any error message, only presented the same package for update again.

[doktor5000]

Did you maybe use npm update in the past?

[fmolina2b]

I installed npm recently, a few weeks ago, and I don't remember updating it.