Running into Permission denied issues when installing Node modules globally?
> node postinstall
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
path.js:1142
cwd = process.cwd();
^
Lately I had some trouble installing tabris-cli. A colleague told me about the option to install Node modules locally.
With npm-config you can check your current Node configuration:
$ npm config list
; cli configs
scope = ""
user-agent = "npm/4.2.0 node/v7.10.0 darwin x64"
; node bin location = /usr/local/bin/node
; cwd = /Users/node
; HOME = /Users/node
; "npm config ls -l" to show all defaults.
To change to local installation:
$ npm config set prefix=$HOME/node
This will add the following userconfig:
$ npm config list
....
; userconfig /Users/fluffi/.npmrc
prefix = "/Users/fluffi/node"
....
Now we can install tabris-cli globally:
$ npm install -g tabris-cli
....
Add export PATH=$HOME/node/bin:$PATH to your
* .profile
* .bashrc
* .zshrc
* ...
open a new Terminal and verify your installation:
$ tabris --version
0.3.0
Please note: this is an iOS and Linux solution only.
For more options/alternative solutions please visit Installing global node modules (Linux and Mac) or isaacs/node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh.