fatal: destination path already exists and is not an empty directory

[slavakurilyak]

I am having an issue setting up the front-end:

$ cd client
$ npm install

gives:

npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! git dep preparation failed
npm ERR! command /usr/local/Cellar/node/16.5.0/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js install --force --cache=/Users/skurilyak/.npm --prefer-offline=false --prefer-online=false --offline=false --no-progress --no-save --no-audit
npm ERR! npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm ERR! npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! npm ERR! command git --no-replace-objects clone --mirror -q ssh://[email protected]/gulpjs/gulp.git /Users/skurilyak/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-db88ced7/.git
npm ERR! npm ERR! fatal: destination path '/Users/skurilyak/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-db88ced7/.git' already exists and is not an empty directory.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! npm ERR!     /Users/skurilyak/.npm/_logs/2021-07-25T04_56_45_273Z-debug.log

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/skurilyak/.npm/_logs/2021-07-25T04_57_25_314Z-debug.log