Error installing yeoman

Question

Installing Yeoman on my OSX machine results in the following error:

paulh16$ npm install -g yo
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/yo
npm http 304 https:         


        

Answer 1

This worked well for me:

sudo npm install -g yo

Answer 2

For me on Ubuntu only the following worked for me...

Ubuntu

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.2

This was a base install of Ubuntu 14.04.2 on VirtualBox using ubuntu-trusty-64.

I had just installed node and npm fresh and they were working well.

npm install -y -g yo
echo export PATH="$HOME/npm/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
npm config set prefix ~/npm
echo "export NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:/home/$USER/npm/lib/node_modules" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
npm install -y -g yo

yes I had to install yeoman, fix the path issues, then reinstall yeoman. based on some answers on this stack overflow post

Answer 3

try

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

and this kind of problem would be solved forever

it's not encouraged to npm with sudo

Answer 4

The npm command fails because you need to be root to edit files under /usr/.

You should properly configure npm, see this relevant SO answer:

$ echo prefix = ~/.node >> ~/.npmrc

Answer 5

This solved the issue for me. Setting the permission on the npm folder in your home directory was the fix for me.

sudo chown -R `whoami` ~/.npm