I'm unable to install Browserify (or anything) globally. I'm able to install things non-globally without issue.
background: I'm running CentOS 6.6 on a corporate network behind a proxy. I installed Node.js using "yum" as root.
$ sudo yum -y install nodejs
and npm (which wasn't installed with nodejs for some reason):
$ sudo yum -y install nodejs npm
This installed Node.js and NPM to the directories:
$ which node
/usr/bin/node
$ which npm
/usr/bin/npm
and put the "node_modules" under /usr/lib/node_modules.
Like I said, I'm behind a proxy so I set the "proxy" and "https-proxy" config properties to the correct values.
When I tried to install browserify (as specified on their site)
$ npm install -g browserify
I received an error
...npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/browserify'...
So I "chowned" the /usr/lib/node_modules dir to give me access to mkdirs in node_modules:
$ sudo chown -R $USER /usr/lib/node_modules
The error:
Now when I try to install browserify globally I get a different error:
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, symlink '../lib/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, symlink '../lib/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js']
npm ERR! errno: 3,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! path: '../lib/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "browserify"
npm ERR! cwd /usr/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.6
npm ERR! path ../lib/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, symlink '../lib/node_modules/browserify/bin/cmd.js'
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /usr/lib/node_modules/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Is there anything special that I need to change to allow NPM to create the symlink?
Also, I tried running the install as root but it just sits there until eventually timing out:
...npm ERR! network tunneling socket could not be established, cause=read ECONNRESET...
I recently experienced this issue. Global modules should be installed as root (sudo). Where my process was failing (similar to yours) was the timeout when running this as root. This was due to the fact the NPM was using the "git" protocol. To get the packages to install, I had to run the following to my git config.
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://
This solved my problem.
I was finally able to install modules globally using npm.
What I did:
I had to use sudo and set the proxy/https proxy in several places. I followed the advice from this blog: http://wil.boayue.com/blog/2013/06/14/using-npm-behind-a-proxy/.
I set the following variables in ~/.bashrc and exported them:
http_proxy
https_proxy
npm_config_proxy
npm_config_https_proxy
I also added them to env_keep using visudo (so they'd be available to sudo).
I then set the proxy and https-proxy config settings on npm using:
$ npm config set proxy http://<proxy>:<port>
$ npm config set proxy http://<proxy>:<port>
I'm not sure if all of this was necessary but it worked for me. Also, at one point I realized that I had the incorrect proxy and had to change it in several places (so be sure to double check that).
Related
I am new to Linux and I am trying to get set-up with nodejs, but I have not been able to figure out why I can't install react. I am following directions that I have seen on the web, but I am wondering why I seem to not have the privileges necessary to install react. It's a personal environment, so I wasn't expecting any issue. Below is what I have run and the final error that the last line gave me.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install nodejs
sudo npm install npm
node -v
v8.10.0
npm -v
3.5.2
sudo npm install npm#latest -g
npm -v
6.10.0
npm install -g create-react-app
Everything above runs just fine until the last command. Then I get the following error, regardless of working directory.
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR! stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/local/lib/node_modules\'',
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/me/.npm/_logs/2019-07-06T19_33_32_971Z-debug.log
Using npx (with npm 5.2+)
If you're using npm 5.2+, you may create a ReactJS app like below:
npx create-react-app my-app
Now your app is in a folder my-app, you can cd into the folder and run npm start.
Using older versions of npm with npm install
You may also install it with a global install with npm, infact for older npm versions (< 5.2) the official documentation for create-react-app links to instructions by Dan Abramov (#co-author of create-react-app):
npm install -g create-react-app
However you may need sudo for a global -g install or work around it
Everything above runs just fine until the last command. Then I get the following error, regardless of working directory.
That's because your last command is a global install (-g).
Unless there is a reason against, you may install it with sudo:
sudo npm install -g create-react-app
To install without sudo, please refer to this question: npm throws error without sudo
I was also having this issue, here is how it was resolved
Make sure you have npm installed or use:
sudo apt install npm
Then
sudo npm -g install create-react-app
To create the app I did not use 'npm' before the command line, instead use this:
create-react-app nameofyourapp
That worked for me.
I'm trying to install angular/cli and when I run
npm install -g #angular/cli
in the terminal I come up with these error messages, furthermore, I tried to use sudo as a prefix but again not a positive result.
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t ssh://git#github.com/angular/cli.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Permission denied (publickey).
npm ERR! fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please make sure you have the correct access rights
npm ERR! and the repository exists.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/username/.npm/_logs/2018-10-06T04_44_40_632Z- debug.log
npm packages should be installed without sudo in macos
Infact sudo should be never be used unless tinkering with system wide
permissions. Node puts npm packages in a specific folder, usually
/usr/local/lib/node_modules. But the trouble is you need sudo
permissions to write here. This leads to an endless use of
non-requisite sudo permissions. This location is what we need to
change and here are handy terminal commands to achieve the same:
mkdir ~/.npm
npm config set prefix ~/.npm
nano ~/.bashrc
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.npm/bin"
source ~/.bashrc
Quoted from here: https://medium.com/#Mandysidana/using-npm-install-without-sudo-2de6f8a9e1a3
Finally, I found the answer
Here is the code just run in terminal:
sudo npm install -g #angular/cli
I've just rebuild my Mavericks (Mac OS X Version 9.4) machine from scratch. I am the administrator and only user of this machine.
I installed Git via their git-2.0.1-intel-universal-snow-leopard.pkg (http://git-scm.com/downloads) in their default /usr/local/git/bin/git location.
I installed Node via their node-v0.10.30.pkg (http://nodejs.org/download/) in their default /usr/local/bin/node location.
The final step of Node's installer package included a note that they also installed NPM in their default /usr/local/bin/npm location.
My $PATH echoes /usr/local/git/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin (it contains /usr/local/bin).
Running npm install -g bower results in:
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower']
npm ERR! errno: 3,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower',
npm ERR! fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR! fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower',
npm ERR! fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR! fstream_stack:
npm ERR! [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
npm ERR! '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53',
npm ERR! 'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! System Darwin 13.3.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/Home
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.30
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/Home/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Running similar installations (npm install -g yo, npm install -g grunt, npm install -g nvm, npm install -g npm) results in what appears to be the same list of errors.
Several people online suggest forcing the installation via sudo, but several others warn this could cause later issues. The manuals for these packages seem not to mention requirement of sudo, and in some cases, they have advised contacting NPM when this issue arises.
Running npm cache clear does not correct the issue.
Running ls -la in the home (~) directory shows my Mac OS X username as the owner of my .npm directory: drwxr-xr-x 15 admin staff 510 Aug 11 23:53 .npm
Does anyone know what has gone wrong and how to correct this? Thank you.
By the way, I solved this issue by changing the owner of /usr/local to be myself, in order to allow NPM to modules in its default location without further requiring sudo for each package's installation.
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
EACCES is an error of not having access on doing an operation.
Taken the line: npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' we can see that npm was unable to create a directory in the given location.
The reason is very likely that you are not running the command as super user. In fact, the error log is even suggesting that:
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
To run as administrator, you have to prefix those commands with sudo. That is:
sudo npm install -g bower. You will be required to type in a password for security reasons.
to start fresh remove prior node.js and npm installs as well as these :
~/.npmrc
~/.npm
~/tmp
~/.npm-init.js
to install nodejs and npm as yourself NOT root do these commands (linux) :
mkdir ${HOME}/bin
download source from : http://nodejs.org/download/
cd v0.10.30/
./configure --prefix=${HOME}/bin/nodejs
make -j8
make install
which puts it into dir defined by above --prefix
export PATH=${HOME}/bin/nodejs/bin:$PATH
NODE_PATH so node can find dir for modules otherwise
npm install xxx will put newly installed module into dir in curr dir :
export NODE_PATH=${HOME}/bin/nodejs/lib/node_modules
do above AND use syntax : npm install xxxxx -g
always use the -g for global
nodejs install gives you npm as well :
ls -la ${HOME}/bin/nodejs/bin
I'd recommend that you install Node.js using a version manager such as nvm. This way, you kill two birds with one stone:
First, you can manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine (which you will want to do sooner or later).
Second, you get around all the access problems you experience when installing Node.js without it. At least that's my experience.
Basically it's as easy as running
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.24.1/install.sh | bash
from the command line.
(SOLUTION ANSWER)
Hi Guys,
I had the same problem on my MacBook Pro 2018. After trie installing any dependency globally (with "-g" or "--global") I did receive an issue "EACCES" error (it's about permissions)
You could simply add "sudo" before your commands what will force it.
For example:
sudo npm install gulp -g
or
sudo npm install browser-sync -g
Enjoy!
It's generally not advised to run sudo unless absolutely necessary.
For issues like this, NPM can solve many issues, and allow multiple node versions to be used, and selected depending upon your use case.
I had a similar issue setting up a new machine, and installing NPM took care of the issue.
So I'm a pretty spoiled rubyist and basically never have to install anything using sudo anymore. I've installed node.js and npm (granted, using the Mac 64-bit .pkg, which could have done gosh knows what on my system) and they work fine.
Now, executing the following:
npm install jasmine-node -g
Doesn't work and says, "Please try running this command again as root/Administrator." which I take to mean sudo npm install jasmine-node -g
Doing: npm install jasmine-node (not globally) works fine, but doesn't setup my path correctly, doesn't run from the command line, etc.
How should I install jasmine-node? cd to /usr/local/bin and install it (without the '-g' option) there? Use homebrew? Or use the sudo ... command I listed above?
Thanks.
/UPDATE: As mentioned above, I installed node.js & npm on my Lion OS X Mac (64-bit) using the universal installer and here are my node/npm listings in /usr/local/bin, in case they're of help:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 24561 wheel 355 Apr 11 2012 /usr/local/bin/node-waf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 24561 wheel 18930304 Oct 25 14:07 /usr/local/bin/node
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 38 Nov 12 10:00 /usr/local/bin/npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
Also, I found this answer, which is one other option (in addition to the three I presented above).
Please let me know which method is recommended (again, ideally without using 'sudo' is my preference).
/END UPDATE
Here is what doing it with -g (globally) returns (not using sudo):
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/jasmine-node
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/jasmine-node
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/jasmine-node/-/jasmine-node-1.0.26.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/jasmine-node/-/jasmine-node-1.0.26.tgz
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node']
npm ERR! errno: 3,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node',
npm ERR! fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR! fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node',
npm ERR! fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR! fstream_stack:
npm ERR! [ 'DirWriter._create (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23)',
npm ERR! '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53',
npm ERR! 'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)' ] }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! System Darwin 11.4.2
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "jasmine-node" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/brad/play/troles
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.14
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.65
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/jasmine-node'
npm ERR! fstream_stack DirWriter._create (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23)
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/brad/play/troles/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
When not using the -g (global install) option, "executables go in ./node_modules/.bin/".
I don't use the -g myself. If you really don't want to install it globally, you can install jasmine-node in your $HOME and add $HOME/node_modules/.bin to the $PATH variable.
I just changed the ownership of all the folders node was concerned with.
sudo chown -R my_account_name /usr/local/lib/node_modules/
sudo chown -R my_account_name /usr/local/lib/node/
sudo chown -R my_account_name /usr/local/include/node/
I don't really know if that's bad practice, but I don't really give a damn.
When you run npm install -g somepackage, you may get an EACCES error asking you to run the command again as root/Administrator. It's a permissions issue.
It's easy to fix, open your terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
** I strongly recommend you to not use the package management with sudo (sudo npm -g install something), because you can get some issues later **
Reference: http://foohack.com/2010/08/intro-to-npm/
** Recommended way **
The reason is because this can cause permissions problems with lots of other apps, so I'd suggest not doing this.
A better solution when you are installing in global:
sudo chown -R whoami ~/.npm
So it seems that the node and npm community has finally (in the past year) worked out a method for installing npm and node without needing to use sudo.
Since I'm on Mac OS X, I found these instructions worked for me to uninstall node & npm, then I just used brew to install npm (which automatically gives one node as well). You may need to sudo uninstall, btw, if you sudo'ed to install.
If the above linked instructions don't work, try the top-voted (1500+ votes) answer to do it a bit more manually.
Now having done that, jasmine-node installs just fine w/o sudo, any chowning, or any permissions wrangling. Just run npm install jasmine-node -g and all is well.
I'm new to node.js and I have installed it by running the installation from the node website. I've had a play installing packages globally (e.g. should) but now I'm trying to install the tower module on my Mac, like so:
sudo npm install tower -g
It install a bunch of stuff and then crashes, with output
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/zeparser/0.0.5
> ws#0.4.20 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/socket.io-client/node_modules/ws
> node install.js
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
node.js:520
var cwd = process.cwd();
^
Error: EACCES, permission denied
at Function.startup.resolveArgv0 (node.js:520:23)
at startup (node.js:54:13)
at node.js:611:3
npm ERR! ws#0.4.20 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! `sh "-c" "node install.js"` failed with 11
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the ws#0.4.20 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the ws package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node install.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls ws
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
If I read that correctly it's the ws (websockets?) module crashing.
In researching this problem a blog suggested I add the node path to my .bashrc so I have done that.
Any suggestions?
At this line:
ws#0.4.20 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/socket.io-client/node_modules/ws
We see that ws is install in /usr/local/lib, I need root to write here no ?
I'm using linux, it's maybe not the case in mac...
You should use sudo npm install -g tower or install Node.js with nvm. Nvm cares that modules are install in your home, so you do not need sudo.
After much experimentation the only thing that worked for me was to enable the OSX root account, and then:
su
npm install -g tower
sudo did not work but su did.