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hrishikeshp19
Asked: 2012-02-10 21:58:01 +0800 CST

nodejs npm installation error

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I am doing this with root privileges. But still I am getting access denied error.

hrishikesh@hrishikesh-ubuntu:~$ sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
[sudo] password for hrishikesh: 
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tar=/bin/tar
version:
tar (GNU tar) 1.25
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
install [email protected]
fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.1.1.tgz
0.6.10
1.1.1
cleanup prefix=/usr/local

All clean!

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, permission denied '/usr/local/bin/npm'
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.38-13-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/tmp/npm.2959/package/cli.js" "rm" "npm" "-gf"
npm ERR! cwd /tmp/npm.2959/package
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.10
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.1
npm ERR! path /usr/local/bin/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! message EACCES, permission denied '/usr/local/bin/npm'
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /tmp/npm.2959/package/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
npm ERR! error installing [email protected]
npm ERR! error rolling back [email protected] Error: EACCES, permission denied '/usr/local/bin/npm'

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, permission denied '/usr/local/bin/npm'
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.38-13-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/tmp/npm.2959/package/cli.js" "install" "-gf"
npm ERR! cwd /tmp/npm.2959/package
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.10
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.1
npm ERR! path /usr/local/bin/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! message EACCES, permission denied '/usr/local/bin/npm'
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /tmp/npm.2959/package/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
It failed
hrishikesh@hrishikesh-ubuntu:~$

What do I do?

software-installation

3 Answers

  1. Solved it. Helped by StackOverflow. Used following command.

    curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

    My previous command

    sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

    was fetching the url with root privileges. I was supposed to do sh with root privileges.

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  2. Adding Chris Lea’s Repo

    Using Launchpad repo by Chris Lea just run following commands

    apt-get install python-software-properties
apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
apt-get update

    node.js install

    apt-get install nodejs

    Check node.js version

    node -v

    Outputs

    v0.10.20

    npm install

    Above command should install npm.

    Check npm version

    npm -v

    Outputs

    1.4.3

    If for some reason, if you see npm is not installed, you may try running:

    apt-get install npm
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  3. I solved this using:

    curl -L http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

    When I used without -L, the command does not work.

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