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Ubuntu - nodejs - npm install -g > Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir

Was having a issue installing a NodeJS npm package. On a Digital-Ocean Droplet Ubuntu (14.04) server. 

 npm install -g PACKAGE-NAME

I even tried with sudo had the same error.

Error message: 

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '.....etc'
Solution

  • Hope this helps someone took me a while to find a way to get this to install. 

     sudo npm install -g PACKAGE-NAME --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

    What the flags do:

    unsafe-perm - https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/config#unsafe-perm

    Default: false if running as root, true otherwise Type: Boolean Set to true to suppress the UID/GID switching when running package scripts. If set explicitly to false, then installing as a non-root user will fail.

    allow-root - https://bower.io/docs/api/#allow-root

    --allow-root Allows running commands as root. Bower is a user command, there is no need to execute it with superuser permissions. However, if you still want to run commands with sudo, use --allow-root option.