No matching version found for my-other-package@0.0.0-0

I'm working with a lerna project that uses npm and uncertain whether this is a lerna or npm issue.

The structure of the project is like this

- package.json (root)
- package-lock.json
- lerna.json
- packages/
  - main-package/
    - package.json
    - package-lock.json
    - ...
  - aux-package/
    - package.json
    - package-lock.json
    - ...

In main-package/package.json, there is a localPeerDependencies entry

"localPeerDependencies": {
    "aux-package": "0.0.0-0",
    ...
  }

and aux-package's version field matches that value.

Inside the main-package directory, I can run the build script just fine and things work correctly. However, I've modified the code so that aux-package is no longer needed as a dependency and thus the peerLocalDependencies entry can can be deleted.

Running npm remove aux-package gives me the following error

npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for aux-package@0.0.0-0.
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

Running npm prune gives the same error.

I suppose I could manually delete the relevant entries in package.json, package-lock.json, then remove the node_modules folder and reinstall. However I'm hoping to really understand the underlying problem.

First off, is this a lerna issue or npm? Secondly, what is "the right way" to uninstall packages in localPeerDependencies in the year 2023?

Thank you in advance for any pointers in the right direction!

In main-package, it looks like package.json, package-lock.json, and node_modules/.package-lock.json just got out of sync so the error was just the result of that.

To fix this, I had to the following 1 time to get the correct linkages back:

rm -rf node_modules. #at the main-package level

lerna link #at the project root level

npm install # at the main-package level

Seem to be smooth sailing from there.