# Install patch-package with npm

Fix broken node modules with no fuss. Version 8.0.1 via npm; verified 2025-09-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:patch-package
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g patch-package
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:patch-package
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package>
- **Version:** 8.0.1
- **Source summary:** Fix broken node modules with no fuss
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ds300/patch-package#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ds300/patch-package>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/ds300/patch-package#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/patch-package/-/patch-package-8.0.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/ds300/patch-package/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-09-29T16:25:23.430Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-29T16:25:23.430Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- patch-package (cli)

## Dependencies

- @yarnpkg/lockfile
- chalk
- ci-info
- cross-spawn
- find-yarn-workspace-root
- fs-extra
- json-stable-stringify
- klaw-sync
- minimist
- open
- semver
- slash
- tmp
- yaml

## Build dependencies

- @types/app-root-path
- @types/cross-spawn
- @types/fs-extra
- @types/jest
- @types/json-stable-stringify
- @types/minimist
- @types/node
- @types/rimraf
- @types/semver
- @types/tmp
- husky
- jest
- lint-staged
- prettier
- randomstring
- rimraf
- ts-jest
- ts-node
- tslint
- typescript

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 8.0.1
- Package-manager updated: 2025-09-29
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/ds300/patch-package
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for patch-package. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Beta: 6.1.0-0, Canary: 8.1.0-canary.1, Latest: 8.0.1
- **Version Count:** 98
- **Maintainers:** ds300
- **Author:** David Sheldrick
- **Publisher:** ds300
- **Engines:** Node: >=14, npm: >5
- **Integrity:** sha512-VsKRIA8f5uqHQ7NGhwIna6Bx6D9s/1iXlA1hthBVBEbkq+t4kXD0HHt+rJhf/Z+Ci0F/HCB2hvn0qLdLG+Qxlw==
- **Shasum:** 79d02f953f711e06d1f8949c8a13e5d3d7ba1a60
- **Unpacked Size:** 413,012
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2017-05-08T20:32:41.782Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-09-29T16:25:23.430Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-09-29T16:25:23.654Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - patch-package: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pa/patch-package/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [patch-package](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/patch-package/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: broken, fix, modules, node, patch.
- [create-react-app](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/create-react-app/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: chalk, cross, cross-spawn, extra, fs-extra.
- [yarn-audit-fix](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/yarn-audit-fix/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: chalk, extra, fix, fs-extra, lockfile.
- [patch-package](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/patch-package/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph