NPM ERR! When trying to run Meteor project - node.js

Question

I'm trying to view someone else's Meteor project from Github. I cloned it then tried running it by typing 'meteor' but what results is this slew of errors. I've included a sample below. I am running the command prompt as administrator. Clearly this has something to do with Node or its packages but I'm at a loss of where I should go with this. If someone could give me a hint I would be grateful.
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/camelcase
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/map-obj
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mime-db
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/get-stdin
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/repeating
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/async
etc. etc....
npm ERR! error rolling back errno: 50,
npm ERR! error rolling back code: 'EPERM',
npm ERR! error rolling back path:
'C:\Users\Kyle\Documents\Websites...
npm ERR! 'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:108:15)' ] }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command
"C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.10\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\bin\\node.exe"
"C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.10\mt-
os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\bin\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js"
"install"
npm ERR! cwd
C:\Users\Kyle\Documents\Websites\thisWebsite\packages\npm-container.npm\package-new-14v2dj3
npm ERR! fstream_type File
npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter
npm ERR! fstream_finish_call chmod
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR! fstream_stack
C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.10\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\bin\node_modules\npm\node_modules\fstream\lib\writer.js:305:19
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory npm
ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno 50
npm ERR! stack Error:
EPERM, mkdir
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.40
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! path...
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:108:15)
npm ERR!
Error: version not found: ansi-styles#2.2.0
npm ERR! at
C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.10...
npm ERR! at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:108:15)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/npm/npm/issues
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command
"C:\Users\Kyle\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.10\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\bin\\node.exe"

Answer 1

Try running the CMD / Powershell with Administrator (Run as Administrator). and then install npm dependencies as Github usually don't store them do: npm install and npm start. If you keep getting the errors. go to C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\
or where your nodejs is installed and do right click, choose 'Properties' and go to 'Security' tab and give privileges to the user you need and try running npm install. Good luck

Answer 2

This worked in my particular case:
Remove meteorhacks and npm-container by typing this in the console:
meteor remove meteorhacks:npm npm-container
Delete the 'npm-container' folder which is generated by the package.
Run 'npm init' to create a package.json
Copy the contents of packages.json to the dependencies section of package.json