Nativescript-cli: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/root/.local/share/.nativescript-cli'

Created on 25 Dec 2015 · 5Comments · Source: NativeScript/nativescript-cli

Getting
Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/root/.local/share/.nativescript-cli' at FiberFuture.Future.wait (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fibers/future.js:535:15) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/lib/nativescript-cli.js:20:45 - - - - - at Error (native)
when trying to do sudo npm i -g nativescript at OS X 10.11.2 (15C50)
npm - 3.3.12
node - v5.3.0
mkdir /var/root/.local/share/.nativescript-cli works fine and doesn't solve the issue

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dmatora

Most helpful comment

I get the same error.

Edit:

This solved it: npm install -g --unsafe-perm nativescript

nypraise on 1 Jan 2016

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well, actually, tns still works

dmatora on 25 Dec 2015

I get the same error.

Edit:

This solved it: npm install -g --unsafe-perm nativescript

nypraise on 1 Jan 2016

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Hi @dmatora ,
As @nypraise pointed, the solution is to use --unsafe-perm flag to npm install command. The reason is the default npm behavior when installing packages with sudo. When you use sudo, all pacakge scripts are executed with a special user - nobody. This is not the root user and so it cannot write to root's home dir. When --unsafe-perm flag is passed, the postinstall script, that is trying to write to home dir, is executed with the same user (root) and everything works correctly.