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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 5082

Error after installing MAC OS X El Capitan

I have NodeJS installed on my mac.

$ node -v
v4.2.1

I'm trying to install bower. Here is the result:

npm ERR! Darwin 15.0.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower"
npm ERR! node v4.2.1
npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall rmdir

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'rmdir',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! error rolling back Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'
npm ERR! error rolling back     at Error (native)
npm ERR! error rolling back  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower']
npm ERR! error rolling back   errno: -13,
npm ERR! error rolling back   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! error rolling back   syscall: 'rmdir',
npm ERR! error rolling back   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' }

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/Kevin/Sites/npm-debug.log

I tried to do:

$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/_locks: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/bower/1.6.3/package/package.json: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/bower/1.6.3/package: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/bower/1.6.3/package.tgz: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/bower/1.6.3: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/bower: Operation not permitted
chown: /Users/Kevin/.npm/n: Operation not permitted

It seems like I don't have permission at all. I can not install anything.

How can I fix that?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3846

Answers (2)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 5082

The only solution I found was to reinstall mac OS X El Capitan. After that it worked.

I'm now using docker to do not have this kind of problem again.

Upvotes: 1

Saint48198
Saint48198

Reputation: 175

You can run the following commands in a terminal to fix this permission error.

sudo chown -R `whoami` ~/.npm
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib/node_modules

Then you will no longer need to use sudo with any npm installs.

Upvotes: 5

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