Npm ERR! Please run npm cache clean

Question

I'm trying to install IPFS from here npm install ipfs --save and it is giving me the error as
npm ERR! tar.unpack error reading /media/FLASH/Tech/IPFS/ipfs

npm ERR! Linux 4.15.0-29-generic

npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "ipfs" "--save"

npm ERR! Please run npm cache clean

Linux Help · Answer

The npm cache self-heals from corruption issues and data extracted from the cache is guaranteed to be valid. If you want to make sure everything is consistent, then use
npm cache verify
if you're debugging an issue with the installer, you can use
install --cache /tmp/empty-cache
If you're sure you want to delete the entire cache, rerun:
npm cache clean --force