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npm install too slow and hangs on compute engine

Hello

I tried to run this command on linux on compute engine in order to install a package.  Tried with different node and npm versions

 

 

`npm install @wordpress/scripts --save-dev`

 

 

but it gets stuck at `fetchMetadata:` and become very slow and eventually just hangs .

I have tried  different config settings as per my research 

I have tried these below settings

 

 

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ --global
npm cache clear --force
npm set maxsockets 3

npm config set strict-ssl true

 

 

Also I have tried downgrading to npm 6 and tried fresh install for nvm, npm and node and then tried to run

 

npm install @wordpress/scripts --save-dev

 

But none of the above settings / solution worked . Running   the above npm install command is very slow and doesn't not complete installation . It get stuck at different points in different tries .

On local the same command works and package is installed in less than a minute.

 Is it a networking issue / memory issue or something else going on? I have been having this issue for last 5-6 days . Can someone please help in this regard? 

 

 

 

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