Plesk repair installation failed with: Fixing permissions on Panel packages files ERROR:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'npm-folders.md'

Symptoms

• Command plesk repair installation failed with the following message:

  Fixing permissions on Panel packages files
  ERROR:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/plesk/node/12/lib/node_modules/npm/doc/files/npm-folders.md'
  (...)
  Bootstrapper repair finished.
  Errors occurred while performing the following actions: fix Plesk packages permissions.
  Check '/var/log/plesk/install/plesk_18.0.39_repair.log' and '/var/log/plesk/install/plesk_18.0.39_repair_problems.log' for details.
  If you can't resolve the issue on your own, please address Plesk support.
  exit status 1

• plesk-nodejs packages used by older Node.js extension are installed:

  # rpm -qa | grep plesk-nodejs
  plesk-nodejs12-12.4.0-19102813.x86_64
  plesk-nodejs8-8.16.0-19102813.x86_64
  plesk-nodejs10-10.16.0-19102813.x86_64

Cause

Obsolete package used by previous Plesk Node.js extension is corrupted.

Resolution