Lots of “npm ERR!”s when running `yo angular`

Question

I\'m trying to get Yeoman to work but it\'s been one wall after another. Thank God for stackoverflow and all you nice people helping out. Anyways ...

I\'ve been trying

Answer 1

80 error Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/ubuntu/tmp/npm-26883-sBYbfAy6'

Okay, so your /home/ubuntu/tmp has wrong permissions. It happened because you did sudo npm install in the past, and npm doesn't handle this well enough.

Run sudo chown ubuntu /home/ubuntu/tmp -Rv to fix this issue, or just delete that folder.