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Asked: 2014-04-30 07:27:07 +0800 CST

Permissions denied when installing Node.js on CentOS 6.5

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I'm trying to install Node.js on an Nginx+Passenger+Ruby server running the following steps as user 'deploy':

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/node-v0.10.26.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.10.26.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.26
sudo ./configure && make && make install

Everything goes fine until it gets to the final make step and ends with this error:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/bin/node'
make: *** [install] Error 1

What permissions need to be set on that dir for node to be able to install correctly?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Because with 

    sudo ./configure && make && make install

    only the ./configure phase is run as root, the rest of the commands as an ordinary user.

    Alternatives:

    sudo "./configure && make && make install"

sudo ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
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