Why does npm need sudo for EVERYTHING?

Question

I don\'t know how I\'ve managed it but npm seems to need sudo for absolutely every command, even npm help does not work without sudo. If I use a co

Answer 1

I encountered the same error after a fresh install of 0.12.4 today; this solved the problem for me:

sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local/lib/node_modules

In my particular case, I noticed that this folder was owned by '{some-large-integer-account}:wheel'...YMMV

If that doesn't solve it, take a look at the ownership of the folders that are being blocked as mentioned in the EACCESS error trace. If you're not sure what the ownership should be, you can usually infer it from the sibling dirs' ownership.