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Ole
Ole

Reputation: 46890

Installing electron globally on Ubuntu with NPM

Attempting to resolve this question and getting the following error when installing electron globally with NPM:

    ole@mki:~/angular-electron$ sudo npm install electron -g 
    /usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js

    > [email protected] postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
    > node install.js

    /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/install.js:48
    throw err
    ^

    Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/dist'
    npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
    npm ERR! errno 1
    npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node install.js`
    npm ERR! Exit status 1
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
    npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

    npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /home/ole/.npm/_logs/2018-02-03T03_28_15_952Z-debug.log

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1455

Answers (1)

kontrollanten
kontrollanten

Reputation: 2819

As npm proposes:

 mkdir ~/.npm-global
 npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
 export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
 source ~/.profile

By doing it this was you keep your global npm packages scoped within your user account, instead of shared between all the users in the computer. Even if you're the only user, this is a recommended behavior. :-)

Upvotes: 4

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