error while creating a jhipster project on linux - jhipster

Question

When I m running
sudo yo jhipster
, I m getting this error at the end of the creation process:
Error: EACCES, permission denied '/home/userxxx/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml'
You don't have access to this file.
at Object.fs.openSync (evalmachine.<anonymous>:438:18)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (evalmachine.<anonymous>:289:15)
at Object.create.all.get (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:33:29)
at Object.Configstore (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:26:44)
at new Insight (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/lib/index.js:26:34)
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/cli.js:123:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
I have tried :
chown userxxx /home/userxxx/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml
But this doesn't help.
If I m trying to create my project without sudo, it ends with :
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/userxxx/.npm/each-async/0.1.3'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/userxxx/.npm/each-async/0.1.3']
npm ERR! errno: 3,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! path: '/home/userxxx/.npm/each-async/0.1.3',
npm ERR! parent: 'grunt-svgmin' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! System Linux 3.16.0-23-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /home/userxxx/dev/workspace/blankjhipster
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! path /home/userxxx/.npm/each-async/0.1.3
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/userxxx/.npm/each-async/0.1.3'
npm ERR! not ok code 0
it appears that the folder 01.1.3 doesn't exits, I have the folder 1.1.0
If anyone knows about this issue...
I m using ubuntu 14.10
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First of all, you don't need to use sudo with jhipster. Please try the following
Delete your existing ~/.npm cache using sudo for one last time: sudo rm -r /home/userxxx/.npm
This was the last time to use sudo for this task, all the following commands should be run as user userxxx without sudo
Create your project directory and cd into it: mkdir /home/userxxx/my-jhipster-project && cd /home/userxxx/my-jhipster-project
Generate your project using jhipster: yo jhipster