更新npm时出错

Question

我在计算机上安装node.js和npm时遇到问题。我正在运行Windows 10 Pro x64，并使用Windows Powershell（管理员）。

我从他们的网站下载了node.js版本：9.10.1并运行了安装指南 - 点击下一步（我没有改变任何东西），然后安装。

我正在尝试将npm从5.6.0更新到5.8.0，我收到此错误：

我检查了错误日志，并说：

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'Z:\\Program\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'Z:\\Program\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'i',
1 verbose cli   'npm' ]
2 info using npm@5.6.0
3 info using node@v9.10.1
4 verbose config Skipping project config: C:\Users\Peter/.npmrc. (matches userconfig)
5 verbose npm-session c548a2e6f9e81d03
6 silly install loadCurrentTree
7 silly install readLocalPackageData
8 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm 267ms
9 silly pacote tag manifest for npm@latest fetched in 646ms
10 silly install loadIdealTree
11 silly install cloneCurrentTreeToIdealTree
12 silly install loadShrinkwrap
13 silly install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree
14 silly resolveWithNewModule npm@5.8.0 checking installable status
15 silly pacote trying https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-5.8.0.tgz by hash: sha512-DowXzQwtSWDtbAjuWecuEiismR0VdNEYaL3VxNTYTdW6AGkYxfGk9LUZ/rt6etEyiH4IEk95HkJeGfXE5Rz9xQ==
16 silly pacote data for sha512-DowXzQwtSWDtbAjuWecuEiismR0VdNEYaL3VxNTYTdW6AGkYxfGk9LUZ/rt6etEyiH4IEk95HkJeGfXE5Rz9xQ== not present. Using manifest.
17 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-5.8.0.tgz 15166ms
18 silly pacote https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-5.8.0.tgz extracted in 15380ms
19 silly addBundled read tarball
20 silly cleanup remove extracted module
21 silly saveTree Peter
21 silly saveTree `-- npm@5.8.0
21 silly saveTree   +-- abbrev@1.1.1
21 silly saveTree   +-- ansi-regex@3.0.0
21 silly saveTree   +-- ansicolors@0.3.2
21 silly saveTree   +-- ansistyles@0.1.3
21 silly saveTree   +-- aproba@1.2.0
21 silly saveTree   +-- archy@1.0.0
21 silly saveTree   +-- bin-links@1.1.0
21 silly saveTree   | +-- bluebird@3.5.1
21 silly saveTree   | +-- cmd-shim@2.0.2

//silly saveTree <<-- this goes on for a while, removed 95% of it..

21 silly saveTree   | +-- errno@0.1.7
21 silly saveTree   | | `-- prr@1.0.1
21 silly saveTree   | `-- xtend@4.0.1
21 silly saveTree   +-- wrappy@1.0.2
21 silly saveTree   `-- write-file-atomic@2.3.0
22 verbose stack Error: ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, open 'C:\Users\Peter\node_modules\npm\node_modules\JSONStream\npm-shrinkwrap.json'
23 verbose cwd C:\Users\Peter\Desktop\Skola\Ionic_app
24 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.16299
25 verbose argv "Z:\\Program\\nodejs\\node.exe" "Z:\\Program\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "i" "npm"
26 verbose node v9.10.1
27 verbose npm  v5.6.0
28 error path C:\Users\Peter\node_modules\npm\node_modules\JSONStream\npm-shrinkwrap.json
29 error code ELOOP
30 error errno -4067
31 error syscall open
32 error ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, open 'C:\Users\Peter\node_modules\npm\node_modules\JSONStream\npm-shrinkwrap.json'
33 verbose exit [ -4067, true ]

我不知道这一切意味着什么。

如何将npm更新为5.8.0，并确保我的安装工作正常？