Electron JS install error - Error: EACCES: permission denied

Question

getting error while installing ElectronJS,

Error:

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir \'/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/.electron\'

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem. I fixed it by changing folder permissions.

Check the current folder permissions of the /usr/lib/node_modules directory by running the following command:

ls -l /usr/lib | grep "node_modules

Your output will probably be:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root {timestamp} node_modules

Change the owner of the directory to the current user by running the following command:

sudo chown -R current_username:current_username /usr/bin/node_modules

Note - Do not run sudo with any npm command! More information here.

Hope this Helps :)