Error when trying to NPM Publish previously unpublished version

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Whilst working on an NPM module while hungover (great plan), I bumped to the wrong version. "No problem" I thought. "I've done it before and solved with use of `npm unpublish @`." I did this and tried republishing yet it threw the error "cannot replace previously published version" despite this version not existing. I decided to go nuclear. There was only 10 versions of my package so I decided to do `npm unpublish --force` and start again from v0.0.1. I'm still getting the "cannot replace previously published version". HELP!!! How can I fix this so I can put my package back? Error log below ``` npm publish v0.0.1.tar.gz npm http PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/datautils npm http 403 https://registry.npmjs.org/datautils npm http PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/datautils npm http 403 https://registry.npmjs.org/datautils npm ERR! publish Failed PUT 403 npm ERR! Error: forbidden Cannot replace previously published version: 0.0.1: datautils npm ERR! at RegClient.

Accepted Answer

You can't do that anymore.

https://github.com/npm/npmjs.org/issues/148

TLDR: when you unpublish a version and then publish something else instead, you can break people's code, and so it's bad.

Error when trying to NPM Publish previously unpublished version

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