NPM Error When Trying To Install node-sass

Question

I was trying to install node-sass on Linux Mint by running the command sudo npm install node-sass, but I got some errors. It says that it does not have access to some directories, which doesn't make any sense because I ran it with sudo. I have tried many solutions on StackOverflow, including purging node, using a different version, etc. but none have worked. Here is the full terminal log:

> [email protected] install /home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Unable to save binary /home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-57 : { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/vendor'
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:885:18)
    at sync (/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:71:13)
    at Function.sync (/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:77:24)
    at checkAndDownloadBinary (/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/scripts/install.js:114:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/scripts/install.js:157:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/vendor' }

> [email protected] postinstall /home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

Building: /usr/local/bin/node /home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node',
gyp verb cli   '/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js',
gyp verb cli   'rebuild',
gyp verb cli   '--verbose',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ext=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_cflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ldflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_library=' ]
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | linux | x64
gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded python2 /usr/bin/python2
gyp verb check python version `/usr/bin/python2 -c "import sys; print "2.7.12
gyp verb check python version .%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];"` returned: %j
gyp verb get node dir no --target version specified, falling back to host node version: 8.11.0
gyp verb command install [ '8.11.0' ]
gyp verb install input version string "8.11.0"
gyp verb install installing version: 8.11.0
gyp verb install --ensure was passed, so won't reinstall if already installed
gyp verb install version is already installed, need to check "installVersion"
gyp verb got "installVersion" 9
gyp verb needs "installVersion" 9
gyp verb install version is good
gyp verb get node dir target node version installed: 8.11.0
gyp verb build dir attempting to create "build" dir: /home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/build
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass/build'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.10.0-37-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd /home/caden/Desktop/Infinite_Robots_Work/infinite-robots-homepage/infinite-robots-homepage/node_modules/node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
Build failed with error code: 1
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of ajv@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/build.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/caden/.npm/_logs/2018-08-10T00_32_24_558Z-debug.log

Answer 1

Try Using The following, Source

sudo npm install --unsafe-perm -g node-sass