Prevent permission errors at installation
If you see an EACCES error when you try to install a lumber-cli globally, follow this tutorial.
Depending on how you've installed Node.js on your system, you could encounter a permissions error EACCES similar to the following output.
In this case, I got the error on a EC2 instance running on Ubuntu 10.04 with Node v8.10.0 and NPM v.3.5.2. But you can have this similar problem on another system and node version.
npm ERR! Linux 4.15.0-1021-aws
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "lumber-cli" "--save"
npm ERR! node v8.10.0
npm ERR! npm v3.5.2
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib'
npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib'
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/npm-debug.log
The problem is because NPM does not have the write access to the directory that will contain the package you want to install (here
lumber-cli).To solve this issue, we recommend to override the default directory where your global NPM packages will be stored.
mkdir ~/.npm-global
Then, configure NPM to use this directory instead of the default one:
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
Then, make the node executables accessible from your PATH. To do so, export the environment variable PATH by opening or creating the file
~/.profile and add this line at the end:~/.profile
export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
Finally, reload the
~/.profile file:source ~/.profile
That's it, now you should be able to install lumber without any error 🎉
npm install -g lumber-cli
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