sh: 1: node: Permission denied - node.js

Question

Tried to run this command on ubuntu 18.04
npm install -g pngquant-bin
but I got this error,
[..................] | fetchMetadata: sill resolveWithNewModule npm-conf#1.1.3 checking installable status
npm WARN deprecated gulp-util#3.0.8: gulp-util is deprecated - replace it, following the guidelines at https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5
/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/bin/pngquant -> /root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/lib/node_modules/pngquant-bin/cli.js
> pngquant-bin#5.0.0 postinstall /root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/lib/node_modules/pngquant-bin
> node lib/install.js
sh: 1: node: Permission denied
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! pngquant-bin#5.0.0 postinstall: `node lib/install.js`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the pngquant-bin#5.0.0 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2018-08-12T18_08_02_197Z-debug.log
Do you do you know how to deal with this?
I tried every solution found in this articles yet not succeeded.

Answer 1

Got the same error sh: 1: node: Permission denied
So this worked for me
npm config set user 0
npm config set unsafe-perm true

Answer 2

These issues happen because of broken packages. Go to the main folder. If using Linux use command
sudo rm -rf node_modules.
After that run this command if you are using yarn
yarn install
If you are using npm run this command
npm install

Answer 3

Delete the node_modules and install it again
sudo rm -rf node_modules
npm install

Answer 4

in fact, npm can't use root account to install anything. if you use root account, npm will create a non-permission account to install. in this case, if the package need to execute writeFile or other operation which need permission, the error node: Permission denied will be raised.
so, you can choose optional arbitrary under:
npm install xxx --unsafe-perm
npm config set unsafe-perm true
create high-permission account dedicate to execute npm install

Answer 5

In my case it was a silly typo, I was forgotten to add node into the front of the start command in package.json. So I've changed:
"scripts": {
"start": "app/server.js"
}
... to:
"scripts": {
"start": "node app/server.js"
}

Answer 6

The /root/.npm/... log path in your original message shows you're already running as root, and (despite what others advise) I'd say this is most likely causing your problem.
My (limited) experience running Node as root is that most npm install runs get quite a long way, but then fail with some variation on the error you showed. The only reliable solution I've found is to not run Node or npm as root at all on Ubuntu. Just use a normal user account to download and unpack the Node installation.
At least one problem with running as root for me turned out to be because some dependency-of-a-dependency npm install script was calling setuid to switch to a less-privileged user. For some reason, it chose UID 500—which doesn't exist on Ubuntu—and consequently lost all its privileges. The 'Permission denied' errors were therefore because I was running as root; setuid doesn't work for a normal user.
I believe this is related to Error: setuid user id does not exist npm ERR! when npm install forever -g.

Answer 7

Solved my problem chmod -R a+x node_modules
As far as my understanding goes the os is blocking your ability to execute commands described in node_modules so by my understanding what this command does is say everything in node_modules is okay to execute.
By the time I found the solution it was 4 AM, so I didn't really bother to figure out what I actually did. If someone knows what -R a+x node_modules does exactly feel free to drop it in the commands and I will make an edit.

Answer 8

I make the chown to project user owner (in USERID) dir and resolv the "permission denied" problem:
sudo chown -R USERID.USERID *

Answer 9

Additionally (and this might be useful for docker) you can override this configuration setting globally via the environment variable npm_config_user -- for example:
ENV npm_config_user=root

Answer 10

I ran into the same error an nothing really helped. I found a medium article explaining how to set up an angular build management. For some reason adding
- npm link #angular/cli#13.2.5
to my build script made it. I basically added all of the recommendations above. So my build script now looks like this
- ...
- npm config set user 0
- npm config set unsafe-perm true
- npm i --force
- npm link #angular/cli#13.2.5
- ...
I hope it helps! I would be happy if someone could explain why it actually worked.

Answer 11

This is an old question but maybe someone still need some help.
This errors often is displayed because you have defined in the package.json just the path. For example:
{
// more definitions
"scripts": {
// other scripts
"getPax8Products": "<filepath>",
// more scripts
},
// more definitions
}
In this case, you need to:
Add the following lines in the very beggining of the script
#!/usr/bin/env node
'use strict';
Give the file execution permission
# in UNIX based
chmod +x <filepath>
You also can modify the package.json and add the node command. However, you need to be aware that NPM will run in the script's directory:
{
// more definitions
"scripts": {
// other scripts
"getPax8Products": "node <filepath>",
// more scripts
},
// more definitions
}

Answer 12

For Deploying with Docker:
make sure /node_modules is deleted or added to dockerignorefile
make sure /dist is deleted or added to dockerignorefile
the problem was solved for me by deleting both files
and build them in the container

Answer 13

For me, I had not installed my dependencies. node_modules did not exist, but I had jest installed globally apparently. Running npm ci and then running npm test solved my issue.

Answer 14

npm install lite-server --save-dev
packages.json:
"scripts": {
"dev": "lite-server",
},
"devDependencies": {
"lite-server": "^2.6.1"
}
npm run dev

Answer 15

I stuck with same issue when tried to install packages into AWS Sagemaker instance
The issue coming because NPM by default install new global packages into ~/.npm-global
When you run npm install -g by root, npm is try to install package into /root/.npm-global/..., and stuck with access denied.
Simply workaround to re-config global folder for npm.
(https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally)
Here is example of install obj2gltf
mkdir /npm-global
npm config set prefix '/npm-global'
export PATH=/npm-global/bin:$PATH
npm install -g obj2gltf

Answer 16

I had that error too and tried the above solutions without any change. My error was caused because I had Windows (11) with a WSL and NVM installed on both operating systems. I had to uninstall NVM on my Windows to resolve the conflicts.
I think if you develop in your WSL and have a resource installed on both operating systems, a dependency might point to the wrong operating system with the resource (in my case to the NVM on Windows). The WSL user didn't have sufficient permissions to perform any execution on the Windows machine, which lead to the error.

Answer 17

you need root user permission, just add sudo keyword before the command and write your password
sudo npm install -g pngquant-bin

Answer 18

Try to install node at project folder
npm install node