NPM won't install any package on Mac. New, clean build. `EACCES` & other errors

Question

I\'ve just rebuild my Mavericks (Mac OS X Version 9.4) machine from scratch. I am the administrator and only user of this machine.

• I installed Git via their

Answer 1

I'd recommend that you install Node.js using a version manager such as nvm. This way, you kill two birds with one stone:

• First, you can manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine (which you will want to do sooner or later).
• Second, you get around all the access problems you experience when installing Node.js without it. At least that's my experience.

Basically it's as easy as running

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.24.1/install.sh | bash

from the command line.