! zlib: Cannot read property 'length' of null about degit HOT 4 OPEN

Sorry my bad english.

In fact, this is a similar problem with this one sapper ! zlib: unexpected end of file. The zlib problem means a problem in the downloaded archive and has nothing to do with node npm or npx. Apparently degit with a bad connection deflates a broken archive. And in the future uses it.

I quote from Readme.md
... and download the associated tar file to ~ / .degit / some-user / some-repo / commithash.tar.gz if it doesn't already exist locally

And until someone commits, he will try to use it. Solving the problem by deleting the degit folder.

The question is can degit check archive integrity?

Or add an option to reload an archive like --force-upload?

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Same problem here with Ubuntu 18.04. It is not a Windows 7 problem, definitely!

$ npx degit sveltejs/template my-svelte-project
npx: instaló 33 en 5.374s
! zlib: Cannot read property 'length' of null
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic
$ uname -a
Linux HPED800 4.15.0-58-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 6 11:12:41 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Update: Problem solved after updating node
$ npx degit sveltejs/template my-svelte-project
npx: instaló 33 en 2.018s

cloned sveltejs/template#master to my-svelte-project

$ node -v
v10.16.3

Previously I had node v9.0.0

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+1

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Thanks @shvargon !
Deleting ~/.degit folder also helped me out.

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