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Trying to get ionic up and running but getting lots of errors. Any Tips?

Nates-MacBook-Pro:~ TheRainmaker$ npm install -g cordova ionic
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova',
npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova',
npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR!   fstream_stack: 
npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53',
npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Darwin 14.0.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "cordova" "ionic"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/TheRainmaker
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.32
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova'
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic',
npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic',
npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR!   fstream_stack: 
npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53',
npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Darwin 14.0.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "cordova" "ionic"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/TheRainmaker
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.32
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic'
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/TheRainmaker/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Nates-MacBook-Pro:~ TheRainmaker$

I prefer to change the ownership/permissions on the /usr/local/lib/node_modules directory so that they are in a 'dev' group, and the permissions are group rwx'able, but sudo works too — reblace, Oct 20 '14 at 22:02

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '14 at 02:18

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try this one

sudo npm install -g cordova ionic

answered Oct 21 '14 at 02:18

Nurdin

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good but is there any alternate for this command or how to prevent ubuntu to throw this error ? – Pardeep Jain Jun 02 '16 at 06:41
when I use command `sudo npm install -g cordova ionic` inseat of `npm install -g cordova ionic` then it worked. – Anil Gupta Mar 29 '18 at 02:53

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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An installation can run arbitrary scripts and running it with sudo can be extremely dangerous.

Change the owner of the files in your /usr/local folder to the current user:

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

Then run the install

npm install -g cordova ionic

Check out:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Dec 31 '14 at 17:10

aturc

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You totally just helped me get grunt working with the first command that you posted. – FairyQueen Apr 29 '15 at 18:17

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 05 '17 at 19:10

Running scripts from the internet with root/administrator access is a bad idea. You should change your default installation path of npm modules to a different folder.

On linux you should use

echo prefix=${HOME}/.localnpm >> ~/.npmrc

This will make npm install everything to ~/.localnpm/bin and ~/.localnpm/lib

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