Npm Please try using this command again as root/administrator

Question

I\'ve been desperately trying to install modules using node.js but it always fails getting packages with npm.

I logged in as Administrator and used powershell/cmd wi

Answer 1

What helped me on Windows 10 was just ticking off "Read Only" of project node_modules.

Answer 2

I had to login into npm to resolve this issue.

npm login

Answer 3

If you are doing this on mac type: sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local that will give you administrative access to your files

Answer 4

$ npm cache clean
npm ERR! As of npm@5, the npm cache self-heals from corruption issues and data extracted from the cache is guaranteed to be valid. If you want to make sure everything is consistent, use 'npm cache verify' instead.

I tried running npm cache verify with admin rights and it worked after that.

Answer 5

You should run cmd.exe as administrator.

Follow the following steps:

• Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
• Right-click Command prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

Answer 6

I don't know which steps worked for me. But these are my steps to get rid of this error:

1. Updated Node.js
2. Ran npm cache clean command in Command prompt ( With some element of doubt for cache presence)
3. Ran react-native init in command prompt as Administrator (on Windows OS), hoping works well with sudo react-native init on Mac OS