npm install Error: EACCES: permission denied

Question

I installed nvm , node and npm on to a new linux VM (debian 11 - bullseye) When I do which npm , it shows

/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v20.4.0/bin/npm

I created a test directory in /var

and I ran npm install --verbose @wordpress/scripts --save-dev command from /var/test and got error

 Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/test/node_modules'
npm ERR!  [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/test/node_modules'] {
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'mkdir',
npm ERR!   path: '/var/test/node_modules'
npm ERR! }

Then as per this , I did

mkdir ~/.npm-global
export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin
echo -e "export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.npm-global\nexport PATH=\$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

restarted terminal

and then tried npm install --verbose @wordpress/scripts --save-dev again but I still get Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/test/node_modules'

how can I run npm install from /var/test ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '23 at 18:54

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You must give write permission to this folder

sudo a+w /var/test

answered Jul 17 '23 at 18:54

Mehriddin Nozimov

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That was it. Thank you – user1207289 Jul 17 '23 at 19:19
The command that I ran was `sudo chmod a+w /var/test` – user1207289 Jul 17 '23 at 19:26

npm install Error: EACCES: permission denied

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