You cannot publish over the previously published versions

Question

I've updated my package using npm version minor to go from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0, and both package.json and package-lock.json reflect this. However when I run the npm publish command it says:

You cannot publish over the previously published versions: 0.4.0

Is there another place I need to update the semver in order to publish?

Answer 1

This helped me:

Open Command Prompt and do the following steps.

1. npm version <new_Version_No>
2. npm publish

Answer 2

take a look at your package.json. Is the version actually set to 0.5.0? If not consider setting it manually there. NPM is telling you that you already have a version 0.4.0 and it cannot publish it again. So it seems to think that it's still on 0.4.0.

Answer 3

npm version [patch|minor|major|<version_no>] should be done to bump up the version and then

npm publish for public visibility add --access public

This should do it.

Answer 4

Remove or rename the publish command in your scripts of package.json if there is one, because this scripts.publish command will be triggered by running npm publish.

"scripts": {
 "publish": "npm publish --access public" // this was being triggered by running `npm publish`
},

see chrisdopuch's answer

Answer 5

You can try the following:

1. Update npm version to latest.
2. cd into the parent folder (of the folder containing package.json i.e. cd into A if your files are A/B/package.json) and then run the command npm publish B.

Doing both fixed the issue for me.

Answer 6

For some reason I was getting this error when I was trying to increase my version from 0.0.0 to 0.0.1. However, updating from 0.0.0 to 0.1.0 worked just fine.

Answer 7

It happens when there is already npm module with same version.

We need to increment the npm module version and publish it again.