Angular Elements won't install in my project

Question

I'm trying to add angular elements to my project and the installation gets stuck. When I built this project I had node 18.6.0 and npm 7.21.0 A couple days ago I ran into this same problem trying to start a new angular app and posted this question where I was told it was a bug with npm v7 and that I should update it. I updated to node 18.17.1 and to npm 9.8.1 and I was able to create the new app. When I try adding @angular/elements to an app I created with the older versions by running npm install @angular/elements I run into this problem again. I tried adding "@angular/elements": "^16.2.0" to my package.json file and running npm install and it gets stuck until it eventually times out. Are there any modificiations I need to make in my package.json or package-lock.json files to get things working again? I don't know what else to try.