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Missing write access when installing dojo/cli (trying to avoid sudo)

I'm following the "Get Going Quickly" from dojo.io and I've entered

npm i @dojo/cli @dojo/cli-create-app -g

but it fails with

npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!  [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'] {
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR! }

How can avoid this without using sudo? I’ve heard I should never use sudo with npm. Is it correct? Should I really avoid it also in this case? I'm on Fedora version 32 and

npm -v
6.14.4

I've also tried to issue only

npm i @dojo/cli -g

according to the Readme of dojo/cli but the error is the same.

Solution

  • Simply set your current user as owner of this node module folder as follow ( $USER refers to your current user name )

    sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules