Unable to create yeoman webapp

Question

I get this when I try to create a webapp with yeoman.

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:66
                throw err;
                      ^
Error: EACCES, permission denied '/root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml'
You don't have access to this file.

    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:436:18)
    at Object.fs.writeFileSync (fs.js:975:15)
    at Object.create.all.set (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:56:8)
    at Object.Configstore (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/node_modules/configstore/configstore.js:19:11)
    at new Insight (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/lib/insight.js:23:34)
    at process.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/lib/push.js:11:16)
    at process.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at handleMessage (child_process.js:322:10)
    at Pipe.channel.onread (child_process.js:349:11)

I googled and I tried the following things, but it didn't help:

chown root /root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml 

chown myusername /root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.yml 

Installed npm-sudo-fix and ran it, and no luck yet.

I am on Debian Wheezy and have npm 1.4.4.

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue. I ran the command below, It fixed my problem:

mkdir -p /root/.config/configstore

chmod g+rwx /root /root/.config /root/.config/configstore