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I am trying to install yo and a few other packages in nodejs, however I keep getting errors. I am new to node so I am a little lost. I am running Mac OS X 10.10.3. The command I am using is
sudo npm install --global yo
Doing this gives me the following errors.
> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/cross-spawn/node_modules/spawn-sync
> node postinstall
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
node.js:720
var cwd = process.cwd();
^
Error: EACCES, permission denied
at Error (native)
at Function.startup.resolveArgv0 (node.js:720:23)
at startup (node.js:63:13)
at node.js:814:3
npm ERR! Darwin 14.3.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "--global" "yo"
npm ERR! node v0.12.7
npm ERR! npm v2.11.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node postinstall`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'node postinstall'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the spawn-sync package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls spawn-sync
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /Users/XXXXXXX/npm-debug.log
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To solve the Missing script: "start" error, make sure to add a start command to the scripts object in your package. json file and open your shell or IDE in the root directory of your project before running the npm start command.
Run: “npm cache clean –force” And if npm cache clean and npm cache verify . are both not working and you still can't clear the cache, you can force clear the cache by running: npm cache clean --force or npm cache clean -f . This will force delete the npm cache on your computer.
In general, you should not be using sudo to install node modules. Instead, use sudo to fix your folder permissions to allow you to do global npm installs.
Take ownership of the .npm directory with
sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm
And write permission for the node_modules directory with
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules
Then try to run your npm install command again without sudo.
160
From your Reddit post, I know that
sudo npm cache clean fixed the issue for you.
Figured someone should answer here so anyone else looking to solve this can find it.
5
Running the following commands should solve the problem.
sudo npm cache clean
sudo npm install -g yo
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