So I am a little new to working in the terminal and trying to set up yo and a localhost environment. No matter what I do it keeps throwing a permissions denied error. I have installed node and npm already and when I run the yo install
npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli gulp i get this error message. My buddy and I have tried so many different things to fix this but we cant get anywhere. I can access and run using sudo but I need to actually have the permissions to get this working. Help please?
I am sorry if that is not detailed enough, I am new to working in the terminal and may not know entirely what I am doing. If all else fails I was going to reset my desktop to factory settings and start over with setting my users and groups.
Screenshot of errors Here
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
or
npm install npm -g
...will do the trick.
You're not the first one to experience those problems and they are (finally) actively addressed in npm#3.X.X
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So i've been trying to download and install node.js and npm to should allow me to run expo on my computer. More especifically the cmd "npm install expo-cli --global". When i run it i get the error(s) below. Now, i'm a novice in terminal and navigation of the computer in general, so i'm having troubles underestanding the errors, or what the solution might be. Any help is appreciated
To install a package globally you have to install with root permissions (similar to "Run As Administrator" on windows). You can run:
sudo npm install expo-cli --global
And enter your password at the prompt (keep in mind that even though it won't show up, it's still there).
An alternative solution (if you're not administrator or don't want to use sudo) is giving npm a prefix and adding that to your path. There's a nice guide for that on GitHub: https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/npm-global-without-sudo.md
I took a screenshot of the error message(s) I'm getting when trying to install the Alexa ask-cli.
typed in the command in terminal exactly like it says so in the guide
I also have a current version of node.js which is required.
First of all, “request deprecated” is not the reason which causes the failure of installation. Because ask-sdk is using it so you get the warning. you can find more Here
The problem is, the terminal you used did not have necessary permissions to access the /node_modules folder.
If you follow the instructions, are you sure that you ran the terminal with Run as Administrator option (in Windows) or sudo (in Unix)?
or you can try this:
sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
then it should work perfectly
The sudo, by the looks of what I have seen in some forums, is why I am getting an error when running sudo ionic emulate ios in this post New to ionic - can’t build for ios (9) on El Capitan, and sudo ionic is required, deprecated npmconf. (I am running El Capitan btw).
Whenever I need to use an ionic, npm, or cordova command, I always have to put sudo in front of it otherwise I get a "bash command not found" error. I have tried to use this fix https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-sudo-fix but it doesn't work. This is what happens in the log:
Dylans-MBP:Ionic Projects Dylan $ sudo npm install -g npm-sudo-fix
Password:
/usr/local/bin/npm-sudo-fix -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm-sudo-fix/index.js
npm-sudo-fix#0.1.3 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm-sudo-fix
└── spawny#0.0.1 (cmdify#0.0.4)
Dylans-MBP:Ionic Projects Dylan$ sudo npm-sudo-fix
chown: /users/root/.npm: No such file or directory
Edit (28 August 2018):
I wrote this post and answer many years ago when I was not very familiar with the terminal. Now that I am more experienced, I can recommend the better solution. It is good practice to avoid unnecessary usages of sudo.
I believe the problem is caused by installing node JS from the installer from the node JS website. This version of node JS seems to write various files in the filesystem as root, potentially (and unnecessarily) causing global packages to require root permissions to be installed.
The ideal solution would be to completely remove node JS, that was installed from the node JS installer from the website, from your machine (see https://stackabuse.com/how-to-uninstall-node-js-from-mac-osx/). Then install node from a commandline package manager, such as homebrew.
Original Answer (2016)
Finally came up with a solution by playing with the permissions! Hopefully I didn't stuff up anything. (I am a terminal noob btw.) Anyway, here's the solution.
Run this code here in the terminal (you may or may not have to run cd .. before hand)
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/
This changes the permissions of every thing inside the local folder (hence the -R which means recursive). (I found this line somewhere in the ionic forums).
Now, you have to reinstall cordova and ionic
sudo npm install -g cordova
sudo npm install -g ionic
For me anyway, after I do this, I can type ionic and not get any errors. I get this in the terminal if I run cordova though.
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/update-notifier/node_modules/configstore/index.js:53
throw err;
^
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/Users/Dylan/.config/configstore/update-notifier-cordova.json'
You don't have access to this file.
What I did to fix this was do this (after opening up a new terminal window):
sudo chown -R $USER Dylan
(Dylan is my user folder; replace it with yours. Also, you may have to do a cd .. before running that line And that fixes the permissions for that config file. Now running cordova works without errors! Woot! That error might come back though, so you have to run that line of code again.
Hope this helps somebody!
I'm a new user to Node and npm, working on Mac OSX 10.7.5. Here's what I did:
Installed the node-v0.10.31.pkg from the Node website.
Everything worked. The Node REPL works fine.
npm does not work. If I type $ npm install learnyounode -g, I get this error: -bash: npm: command not found
I understand npm is supposed to ship with node, so I don't understand why this is an issue. Browsing through some other responses to diagnose the problem...
$ /usr/local/bin/npm results in this message:
-bash: /usr/local/bin/npm: Permission denied
$ which npm does not produce any result.
I've seen some say to use this command: curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh. But, I'm worried about installing over an existing install, and making things way way worse.
Can someone walk me through what my next step should be? Note that I'm not familiar with things like Homebrew, which I've also seen as a potential solution...
Thanks in advance. I just don't want to screw up my computer.
I didn't have access to my /usr/local/lib. I fixed this by typing this into the Terminal:
$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
From a lot of reading, this kind of action is pretty standard and safe. Once I did that, npm could be accessed, and no reinstall was needed! Phew!!
I get this when I try to create a webapp with yeoman.
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:66
throw err;
^
Error: EACCES, permission denied '/root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml'
You don't have access to this file.
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:436:18)
at Object.fs.writeFileSync (fs.js:975:15)
at Object.create.all.set (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:56:8)
at Object.Configstore (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:19:11)
at new Insight (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/lib/insight.js:23:34)
at process.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/lib/push.js:11:16)
at process.emit (events.js:98:17)
at handleMessage (child_process.js:322:10)
at Pipe.channel.onread (child_process.js:349:11)
I googled and I tried the following things, but it didn't help:
chown root /root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml
chown myusername /root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml
Installed npm-sudo-fix and ran it, and no luck yet.
I am on Debian Wheezy and have npm 1.4.4.
I was facing the same issue. I ran the command below, It fixed my problem:
mkdir -p /root/.config/configstore
chmod g+rwx /root /root/.config /root/.config/configstore
The same issue happened to me, i was in root mode user#. I just get back to normal user$ and it worked. i am using Zorin OS
I was able to fix this by running:
echo prefix = ~/.node >> ~/.npmrc
and
export PATH=$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH
Explanation here:
Error installing yeoman
What does `echo prefix = ~/.node >> ~/.npmrc` mean?
npm / yeoman install generator-angular without sudo
I just fixed it in Windows. I have done three things, which one have fixed it I am not sure.
Run cmd prompt as administrator.
takeown /? this command is equivalent to chown (linux) but for windows.
cacls -cacls /E /T /G :F
simply go in $USER /Users/calvin/.config/configstore/ and make files unhidden.
it worked for me like charm. I have been trying to fix this since many days.
I had the same issue building a meanjs app on Ubuntu and I've fixed this issue using sudo instead of root:
sudo npm install -g yo generator-meanjs bower grunt
Then i could build the app without being asked for password again:
yo meanjs
sudo allows user to act as root without root login, it is more secure to use sudo instead of logging in as root.
sudo vs root - askubuntu
Although the chmod command seemed to work at first, I got a similar error later, for a different folder. But here I found this workaround which fixed that too:
sed -i -e '/rootCheck/d' "${NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX}/lib/node_modules/yo/lib/cli.js"
If yo is run as root, rootCheck will downgrade to UID 1000 (on Linux) or 501 (on OS X). This causes the permission error. But in a docker container, you might want to run as root, so you have no other option.
You need to rerun this command after upgrading yeoman. In case NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX is not defined, you can use:
export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=$(npm config get prefix)
the issue is that yo is not granted to use some of the nodejs modules. basically, y the problem is related to authorization of yo by node package manager "npm", to fix this run this command first
sudo npm install --global yo --allow-root