npm install within Vagrant box

Question

I have a fairly vanilla Vagrant box configured using Puphpet with Node installed.

However, when I ssh into the box and try npm install I seem to be having a raft of permissions issues.

Even running with sudo doesn't seem to work

Running into

npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-autoprefixer/2.1.0/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-concat/2.5.2/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-livereload/3.8.0/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/path/0.11.14/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-notify/2.2.0/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-compass/2.0.3/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-minify-css/0.4.6/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-plumber/0.6.6/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-rename/1.2.0/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp/3.8.11/package.tgz
npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/vagrant/.npm/gulp-uglify/1.1.0/package.tgz
npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-32-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v0.12.0
npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
npm ERR! path /var/www/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/package.json
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno -1

npm ERR! Error: EPERM, chown '/var/www/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/package.json'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EPERM, chown '/var/www/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/package.json']
npm ERR!   errno: -1,
npm ERR!   code: 'EPERM',
npm ERR!   path: '/var/www/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/package.json',
npm ERR!   fstream_finish_call: 'chown',
npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'File',
npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/var/www/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/package.json',
npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'FileWriter',
npm ERR!   fstream_stack:
npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/writer.js:308:19',
npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js:143:7',
npm ERR!      'FSReqWrap.oncomplete (evalmachine.<anonymous>:99:15)' ] }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /var/www/npm-debug.log

I've read about writing into a shared folder and tried adding fixes to the Vagrantfile but with no success

      virtualbox.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root", "1"]

Any ideas?

Answer 1

So turns out this was a bug with the Puphpet config like so https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet/issues/1378

The fix can be found in https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet/pull/1403 - just had to replace that snippet in my Vagrantfile and we're sweet. I can now npm install, bundle install etc.