I am going through a quickstart tutorial on GitHub to produce a GitHub App using Node. I've gone through most of the steps there, but I didn't install the Node dependencies using npm instal. So, I went back to run that command in PowerShell, but I got this error:

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\rodf\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2026-07-11T15_03_07_729Z-debug-0.log

I looked up that log file, but it doesn't help me at all:

0 verbose cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js
1 info using npm@11.12.1
2 info using node@v25.9.0
3 silly config load:file:C:\Users\rodf\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v18.12.1\node_modules\npm\npmrc
4 silly config load:file:D:\GitHub\github-app-js-sample.npmrc
5 silly config load:file:C:\Users\rodf.npmrc
6 silly config load:file:C:\Users\rodf\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc
7 verbose title npm install
8 verbose argv "install"
9 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\rodf\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2026-07-11T15_03_07_729Z- 10 verbose logfile C:\Users\rodf\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2026-07-11T15_03_07_729Z-debug-0.log
11 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 2 files
12 verbose cwd D:\GitHub\github-app-js-sample
13 verbose os Windows_NT 10.0.26200
14 verbose node v25.9.0
15 verbose npm v11.12.1
16 verbose exit 1
17 verbose code 1
18 error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\rodf\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2026-07-11T15_03_07_729Z-debug-0.log

At line 18 it references the same log file, so now I'd be in an infinite loop, so I am now stuck.

How do I resolve this issue so the npm install command works?