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

Question

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

 npm install -g PACKAGE-NAME

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Answer 1

For me, I didn't want to install npm for all the users. Hence wasn't using sudo npm .... Instead I granted the required permissions to the directory and it worked.

sudo chmod -R ugo+rw ./node_modules/