error An unexpected error occurred: "EACCES: permission denied

Question

Iam getting an error while running npm install for react application..error An unexpected error occurred: "EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/home/ats/react-app/myapp/node_modules/@babel/helper-module-imports/LICENSE'".Can someone help me sort this error out?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I solved it like this:

• Remove node_modules folder of your project manually.

• Then yarn install or npm install.

Answer 2

Execute as sudo if you are using Linux.

Answer 3

Try changing the folder permissions to have the correct ones. If you consider there is no drawback to have the folder with full permissions this command should solve your problem:

sudo chmod -R 777 folderName