Fatal error while installing web3 node

Question

I am trying to install web3 using the following command: npm install web3

But I am getting this error:

F:\edureka> npm install web3

npm WARN deprecated fs-promise@2.0.3: Use mz or fs-extra^3.0 with Promise Support

npm WARN deprecated tar.gz@1.0.7: ⚠️  WARNING ⚠️ tar.gz module has been deprecated and your application is vulnerable. Please use tar module instead: https://npmjs.com/tar

npm ERR! Error while executing:

npm ERR! C:\Users\edureka\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/frozeman/WebSocket-Node.git

npm ERR!

npm ERR! fatal: read error: Invalid argument

npm ERR!

npm ERR! exited with error code: 128


npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

npm ERR!     C:\Users\edureka\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-08-01T07_46_08_899Z-debug.log

How to solve this?

Answer 1

Try to add git config by executing the command: git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

This git config will change git://github.com/frozeman/WebSocket-Node.git to https://github.com/frozeman/WebSocket-Node.git

This should solve your problem.