npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node install-npm.js`

Question

Install appium on os x

Command execute:$ sudo npm install -g [email protected]

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-chromedriver/2018422-31132-799ew3.4ynnk'

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno 1

npm ERR! [email protected] install: node install-npm.js

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.

npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

npm ERR!
/Users/oliveira/.npm/_logs/2018-05-23T01_24_48_805Z-debug.log

Answer 1

You can try to change ownership of your node_modules folder with

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib/node_modules/

Answer 2

Either change the ownership of the whole node project by

sudo chown -R userName pathToProject

-R will recursively change the ownership of all the directory and files inside the project.

If you don't want to change the ownership you can run the command by the superuser.

Answer 3

Do not use sudo when you are installing Appium via npm.

There is from Appium website:

"Make sure you have not installed Node or Appium with sudo, otherwise you'll run into problems). We recommend the latest stable version, though Appium supports Node 6+."