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

to start fresh remove prior node.js and npm installs as well as these :

~/.npmrc ~/.npm ~/tmp ~/.npm-init.js

to install nodejs and npm as yourself NOT root do these commands (linux) :

mkdir ${HOME}/bin

download source from : http://nodejs.org/download/

cd v0.10.30/

./configure   --prefix=${HOME}/bin/nodejs

make -j8
make install

which puts it into dir defined by above --prefix

export PATH=${HOME}/bin/nodejs/bin:$PATH

NODE_PATH so node can find dir for modules otherwise npm install xxx will put newly installed module into dir in curr dir :

export NODE_PATH=${HOME}/bin/nodejs/lib/node_modules

do above AND use syntax : npm install xxxxx -g always use the -g for global

nodejs install gives you npm as well :

ls -la ${HOME}/bin/nodejs/bin

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

It's generally not advised to run sudo unless absolutely necessary.

For issues like this, NPM can solve many issues, and allow multiple node versions to be used, and selected depending upon your use case.

I had a similar issue setting up a new machine, and installing NPM took care of the issue.

Answer 4

(SOLUTION ANSWER)

Hi Guys,

I had the same problem on my MacBook Pro 2018. After trie installing any dependency globally (with "-g" or "--global") I did receive an issue "EACCES" error (it's about permissions)

You could simply add "sudo" before your commands what will force it.

For example:

sudo npm install gulp -g

or

sudo npm install browser-sync -g

Enjoy!

Answer 5

By the way, I solved this issue by changing the owner of /usr/local to be myself, in order to allow NPM to modules in its default location without further requiring sudo for each package's installation.

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local

Answer 6

EACCES is an error of not having access on doing an operation.

Taken the line: npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower' we can see that npm was unable to create a directory in the given location.

The reason is very likely that you are not running the command as super user. In fact, the error log is even suggesting that:

npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

To run as administrator, you have to prefix those commands with sudo. That is:

sudo npm install -g bower. You will be required to type in a password for security reasons.