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Jonathan Beech
Jonathan Beech

Reputation: 529

Failing to install the Grunt command line interface

I am currently having trouble installing the grunt command line interface, i get a whole lot of errors on the log when I try and install it using instructions off a tutorial website. I just added node.js from a package I downloaded off their website. Any help would be appreciated?

I used the following command as detailed on the roots WordPress instructions page 

npm install -g grunt-cli

and this error message was returned

npm ERR! Error: Attempt to unlock grunt-cli, which hasn't been locked
npm ERR! at unlock (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/locker.js:44:11)
npm ERR! at cb (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache/add-local.js:30:5)
npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache/add-local.js:47:20
npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/locker.js:30:7
npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/lockfile/lockfile.js:167:38
npm ERR! at OpenReq.Req.done (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:144:5)
npm ERR! at OpenReq.done (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:64:22)
npm ERR! at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
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 Darwin 13.2.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "grunt-cli"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/jonbeech
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.14
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/jonbeech/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
➜ ~

Upvotes: 0

Views: 605

Answers (2)

bdanin
bdanin

Reputation: 771

Try to avoid needing sudo with npm, there are likely going to be other permissions errors. Here is what I did after installing npm with sudo:

Uninstall NPM: sudo npm uninstall npm -g

Install NVM so that I can install npm without needing sudo (similar to RVM), see: https://github.com/creationix/nvm#installation

Install latest npm: nvm install stable

Clear caches npm cache clear

and then everything worked

Upvotes: 0

Eddie Martinez
Eddie Martinez

Reputation: 13910

Run sudo npm install -g grunt-cli you need sudo privileges when installing something globally, or remove the -g switch.

Upvotes: 1

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