Fail to install npm package "npm ERR! errno -4048"

I'm trying to install npm package (node-xmpp-server) but it fail to install. previously when I'm trying to install a package that is install globally instead of locally, but now it's not installing at all.
Plz Help me.

npm install node-xmpp-server
error is: npm ERR! errno -4048
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "c:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "c:\Program
Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "node-xmpp-server"

npm ERR! node v0.12.4
npm ERR! npm v2.10.1
npm ERR! path c:\Users\Jaseem Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node- xmpp-server\examples
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno -4048
npm ERR! Error: EPERM, unlink 'c:\Users\Jaseem Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node-xmpp-server\examples'

npm ERR! at Error (native)
npm ERR! { [Error: EPERM, unlink 'c:\Users\Jaseem Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node-xmpp-server\examples']

npm ERR! errno: -4048,
npm ERR! code: 'EPERM',
npm ERR! path: 'c:\Users\Jaseem Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node-xmpp-server\examples' } npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! error rolling back Error: EPERM, unlink 'c:\Users\Jaseem Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node-xmpp-server\examples'

npm ERR! error rolling back at Error (native)
npm ERR! error rolling back { [Error: EPERM, unlink 'c:\Users\Jaseem
Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node-xmpp-server\examples']
npm ERR! error rolling back errno: -4048,
npm ERR! error rolling back code: 'EPERM',
npm ERR! error rolling back path: 'c:\Users\Jaseem Abbas\Documents\node_modules\node-xmpp-server\examples' }

I was having the same problem and I found the following solution:

  1. remove both of

    • %ProgramFiles%\nodejs\npm
    • %ProgramFiles%\nodejs\npm.cmd
  2. Go into %ProgramFiles%\nodejs\node_modules\npm and copy the file named npmrc in the new npm folder, which should be %appdata%\npm\node_modules\npm. This will tell the new npm where the global installed packages are.

  3. Restart Windows and it worked.

Found this over here (the npm troubleshooting section). Credits to the authors there