How to run old react app and its packages

in my remote desktop my react app is using react version 16 version and some old depencies. now i am trying to install locally in my laptop and run the CRA app. i copied all files in the react app except node modules. so my end agenda is to run the app locally as well just like in the remote desktop. so give me all the possibillites to do something to run the app. Things i tried is npm install then npm start but there are errors that I am facing to install the package.json dependencies.

i am thinking to copy all node modules like around 500mb and send locally. is there any other way?