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Why can't i npm install nodemon or supervisor on OSX 10.8.4?

I'm just trying to install nodemon or supervisor using terminal, and I keep getting this error which I don't understand. I tried running as the administrator with sudo npm install supervisor -g which seemed to work, but than didn't when i deleted/added some js code. Any ideas?

Squirrels-MacBook-Air:lesson7_examples Squirrel$ npm install nodemon -g
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nodemon
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nodemon
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon',
npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon',
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 12.4.1
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "nodemon" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/Squirrel/Documents/Code/Memry/Memry_Mongoose
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.21
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon
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/nodemon'
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/Squirrel/Documents/Code/Memry/Memry_Mongoose/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Squirrels-MacBook-Air:lesson7_examples Squirrel$

P.S. I'm running this on a pre-existing template and my dependencies are 

  "dependencies": {
    "mongoose": "~3.6.15",
    "express": "~3.3.4",
    "jade": "~0.34.1",
    "email-validator": "~0.1.2"
  }

When I tried sudo this is what happened: 

sudo npm install supervisor -g --save 
Password:
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/supervisor
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/supervisor
/usr/local/bin/node-supervisor -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/supervisor/lib/cli-wrapper.js
/usr/local/bin/supervisor -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/supervisor/lib/cli-wrapper.js
supervisor@0.5.6 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/supervisor

Which seemed to work. But than in the application code I began to add and delete javascript and click save, yet the effects wouldn't take place unless I restarted the server within terminal.

Solution

  • You're encountering an EACCES error, which means you don't have the rights to create a directory in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nodemon as a standard user in Mac OS X.

    There are two solutions: