[BUG] Packages lost on install of package

[DaveO-Home]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

Ran this and lost the whole application;

npm install loose-envify -D
npm WARN ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm WARN While resolving: stripcode-brunch@0.1.1
npm WARN Found: brunch@4.0.0
npm WARN node_modules/brunch
npm WARN   brunch@"^4.0.0" from the root project
npm WARN 
npm WARN Could not resolve dependency:
npm WARN peer brunch@"^2.10.12" from stripcode-brunch@0.1.1
npm WARN brunch/appl/js/stripcode-brunch
npm WARN   stripcode-brunch@0.1.1
npm WARN   node_modules/stripcode-brunch
npm WARN 
npm WARN Conflicting peer dependency: brunch@2.10.17
npm WARN node_modules/brunch
npm WARN   peer brunch@"^2.10.12" from stripcode-brunch@0.1.1
npm WARN   brunch/appl/js/stripcode-brunch
npm WARN     stripcode-brunch@0.1.1
npm WARN     node_modules/stripcode-brunch
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: 'karma@0.13.22',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '0.10 || 0.12 || 4 || 5' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v16.10.0', npm: '8.1.1' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }

Expected Behavior

Install the one package

Steps To Reproduce

See error above

Environment

• OS: Linux Fedora35 5.14.11-300.fc35.x86_64 archive: committable offline dependency archive #1 SMP Sun Oct 10 14:36:25 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Node: 'v16.10.0
• npm: 8.1.1

[DaveO-Home]

Ok, I terminated the terminal window, reopened and ran npm install loose-envify -D again and it reinstalled the application.
This has happened on several occasions, so there is a problem, but I'll close this........