I have installed node-gyp in order to install scrypt. While installing the node-gyp package the following two packages were installed along with it:

[email protected]

[email protected]

I have tried to remove these two packages, realising that I did not need the node-gyp and scrypt packages, but sudo npm uninstall does not remove them. How can I uninstall these packages?

I have installed node-gyp in order to install scrypt. While installing the node-gyp package the following two packages were installed along with it:

[email protected]

[email protected]

I have tried to remove these two packages, realising that I did not need the node-gyp and scrypt packages, but sudo npm uninstall does not remove them. How can I uninstall these packages?

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• Why do you want to install these packages? Are they dependencies of node-gyp? What does the package-lock.json indicate they are dependencies of? – Alexander Staroselsky Commented Apr 7, 2021 at 2:31
• Thank you @AlexanderStaroselsky I have not explicitly installed them, but they were installed with node-gyp. I have since removed node-gyp (and thus cannot verify the dependencies), but wasn't able to remove these two packages. – JF0001 Commented Apr 7, 2021 at 2:34
• Please don't sign your posts with repetitive taglines like "Thank You, J". Your posts are all "signed" by your usercard already. – user229044 ♦ Commented May 2, 2021 at 2:20

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If your package.json file contains entries for these modules ([email protected] and [email protected]), delete those lines.

Then delete your package-lock.json file.

Then delete your node_modules folder.

Now run npm install

Its Depends on how you have installed those packages.

if it's a local package to the project

use "npm uninstall --save 'package name'" or simply remove the package from package.json of your project. Then Delete node_modules folder and install npm again using "npm install"

if it's a global package use [sudo] npm uninstall -g "package name"

use sudo based on which OS your are using .