Bower Installation Errors

Question

Now I have installed Node and Npm and I run this command in terminal (yes I am on a mac):

npm install -g bower 

Which follows with this output from the terminal:

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'] npm ERR!   errno: 3, npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES', npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower', npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory', npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower', npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter', npm ERR!   fstream_stack:  npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23', npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53', npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] } npm ERR!  npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.  npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower" npm ERR! cwd /Users/Superfunnytogo npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.24 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower npm ERR! fstream_type Directory npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno 3 npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23 npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53 npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15) npm ERR!  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR!     /Users/Superfunnytogo/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 Device-365-352:~ Superfunnytogo$ npm install -g bower npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower'] npm ERR!   errno: 3, npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES', npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower', npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory', npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower', npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter', npm ERR!   fstream_stack:  npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23', npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53', npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] } npm ERR!  npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.  npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower" npm ERR! cwd /Users/Superfunnytogo npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.24 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower npm ERR! fstream_type Directory npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno 3 npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23 npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53 npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15) npm ERR!  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR!     /Users/Superfunnytogo/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 

Answer 1

You need root access or permissions to install globally! Try :

 sudo npm install -g bower