I'm not an expert on node/npm, so this is a lot of speculation on my part, but it may point you in the right direction.
I believe that the message you're seeing is showing the status of the installation. The parentheses at the beginning show the progress, which should fill in as the install proceeds. It looks like your install is hanging right at the beginning, which is why the parentheses are empty.
A quick google leads to some of suggestions:
I believe that the message you're seeing is showing the status of the installation. The parentheses at the beginning show the progress, which should fill in as the install proceeds. It looks like your install is hanging right at the beginning, which is why the parentheses are empty.
A quick google leads to some of suggestions:
- Check that the files in that directory are writeable by the user that you are using to run the `npm ci` command.
- Check that you don't have any uncommitted changes to the code - run `git status` to see if there are any modified files. In particular, check that package-lock.json hasn't been modified.
- Check that you have the latest version of npm.
- Check that there isn't a firewall blocking outgoing network traffic on your server.