Error installing yeoman

Question

Installing Yeoman on my OSX computer results in the following error:

paulh16$ npm install -g yo npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/yo npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/yo npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo' npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo'] npm ERR! errno: 3, npm ERR! code: 'EACCES', npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo', npm ERR! fstream_type: 'Directory', npm ERR! fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo', npm ERR! fstream_class: 'DirWriter', npm ERR! fstream_stack: npm ERR! [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23', npm ERR! '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53', npm ERR! 'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] } npm ERR! npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator. npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "yo" npm ERR! cwd /Users/paulh16/.rvm/lib npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo npm ERR! fstream_type Directory npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno 3 npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo' npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23 npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53 npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15) npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /Users/paulh16/.rvm/lib/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 

I believe the problem is that bash is looking for npm in Ruby Version Manager, where I installed node and npm initially. However, I removed both from the RVM and installed node from the website. I also set up my .bash_profile:

 PS1="\u$ " export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH" export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/mysql/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH" if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then source ~/.git-completion.bash fi [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM$ 

I do not understand why the installation of Yeoman does not work.

Answer 1

This solved the problem for me. Setting permissions on the npm folder in your home directory was a fix for me.

 sudo chown -R `whoami` ~/.npm 

Answer 2

The npm command fails because editing files under /usr/ requires root.

You must configure npm correctly, see this corresponding SO answer :

 $ echo prefix = ~/.node >> ~/.npmrc 

Answer 3

try

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

and this problem will be solved forever

he is not encouraged to npm with sudo

Answer 4

For me on Ubuntu only for me the following worked ...

Ubuntu

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.2

This was a basic installation of Ubuntu 14.04.2 on VirtualBox using ubuntu-trusty-64.

I just installed node and npm fresh and they worked well.

 npm install -y -g yo echo export PATH="$HOME/npm/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc npm config set prefix ~/npm echo "export NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:/home/$USER/npm/lib/node_modules" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc npm install -y -g yo 

Yes, I had to install the yoma, fix the loop problems, and then reinstall the yoman. based on some answers to this post

Answer 5

This worked for me:

 sudo npm install -g yo