sh: 1: node: Permission denied

Question

Tried to run this command on ubuntu 18.04

npm install -g pngquant-bin

but I got this error,

[..................] | fetchMetadata: sill resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: gulp-util is deprecated - replace it, following the guidelines at https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5
/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/bin/pngquant -> /root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/lib/node_modules/pngquant-bin/cli.js

> [email protected] postinstall /root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.8.0/lib/node_modules/pngquant-bin
> node lib/install.js

sh: 1: node: Permission denied
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node lib/install.js`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
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!     /root/.npm/_logs/2018-08-12T18_08_02_197Z-debug.log

Do you do you know how to deal with this? I tried every solution found in this articles yet not succeeded.

Answer 1

Got the same error sh: 1: node: Permission denied

So this worked for me

npm config set user 0
npm config set unsafe-perm true

Answer 2

These issues happen because of broken packages. Go to the main folder. If using Linux use command

sudo rm -rf node_modules.

After that run this command if you are using yarn

yarn install

If you are using npm run this command

npm install

Answer 3

Delete the node_modules and install it again

sudo rm -rf node_modules

npm install