{"id":777,"hash":"54f43850b945a84a32f42800e7385da2d44f74cae2d42dfcac628fd8ad8a4fc9","pattern":"pnpm install: ERR_PNPM_LINKING_FAILED ("operation not permitted, rename[...]")","full_message":"I started on a completely fresh Windows (11) system, installed Node, pnpm and so on. When running pnpm install, I've got the following error:\n\n\"ERR_PNPM_LINKING_FAILED Error: EPERM: oprtation not permitted, rename [...]\":\n\npnpm version: 8.7.6\nnode version: 18.18.0\n\nIt seems like from time to time this issue comes up because one can find several discussions about similar topics:\n\nERR_PNPM_LINKING_FAILED when running pnpm install in Docker on macOS\nnpm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename\n\nThe second one looked promising but removing node_modules, pnpm prune and so on did not help in my case. I also checked the permissions for the directory, ran the commands in the admin PoweShell, did the same within the Git Bash but the error is still there.","ecosystem":"npm","package_name":"node.js","package_version":null,"solution":"It turned out that the pnpm version 8.7.6 seems to be the problem. I found two ways to solve/mitigate the problem:\n\nuse another pnpm version... I saw that pnpm v8.8.0 was released in the meantime and tested it. It looks like the error is gone (npm install -g pnpm@8.8.0 or npm install -g pnpm@latest) otherwise a downgrade would also help\nrunning pnpm install again and again until it completes without erros is also a workaround. Every time you execute the command another package will throw the error until all problems are solved.","confidence":0.9,"source":"stackoverflow","source_url":"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77180619/pnpm-install-err-pnpm-linking-failed-operation-not-permitted-rename","votes":9,"created_at":"2026-04-19T04:51:41.436950+00:00","updated_at":"2026-04-19T04:51:41.436950+00:00"}