'Force NPM to skip package already installed from another source
I'm trying to npm install a package from a heavily proxied Enterprise computer. One of the dependencies of this package tries to install via GitHub, which throws a 407 error.
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-abi.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-abi.git/': Received HTTP code 407 from proxy after CONNECT
I've discussed this with the team that manages these servers- even with proper proxy authentication, access to sites outside of internal registries are very uncommon as a security measure.
As an alternative, I found the package on the NPM registry, and successfully installed it using the internal mirror we have. However, it still tries to install the GitHub version as a dependency of the first package, and then the installation fails. Is there any way to prevent this? I think I've seen something about editing the package's package.json to remove the dependency, but I don't have any experience with this, so I'll only do it if it's the only option to prevent this. Thank you
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