Preact-cli: npm install failing

[rakeshpai]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug

What is the current behavior?
sudo npm install -g preact-cli fails with the following output:

/usr/local/bin/preact -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/index.js

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/uglifyjs-webpack-plugin
> node lib/post_install.js


> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/preact
> node -e "console.log('\u001b[35m\u001b[1mLove Preact? You can now donate to our open collective:\u001b[22m\u001b[39m\n > \u001b[34mhttps://opencollective.com/preact/donate\u001b[0m')"

Love Preact? You can now donate to our open collective:
 > https://opencollective.com/preact/donate

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/simplehttp2server
> node lib/install.js

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/each-async/node_modules/onetime/index.js:15
                throw new Error(fnName + ' can only be called once.');
                ^

Error: callback() can only be called once.
    at onetime (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/each-async/node_modules/onetime/index.js:15:11)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/download/index.js:156:5
    at ConcatStream.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/concat-stream/index.js:36:43)
    at emitNone (events.js:110:20)
    at ConcatStream.emit (events.js:207:7)
    at finishMaybe (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/concat-stream/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:607:14)
    at endWritable (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/concat-stream/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:615:3)
    at ConcatStream.Writable.end (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/concat-stream/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:571:41)
    at DuplexWrapper.onend (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/duplexer2/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:570:10)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:314:30)
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/preact-cli/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node lib/install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall 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!     /home/rakesh/.npm/_logs/2017-10-17T13_43_02_875Z-debug.log

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.
sudo npm install -g preact-cli

What is the expected behavior?
npm install should install preact-cli

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behavior?
NA

Please mention other relevant information.

• node version: v8.2.1
• npm version: 5.5.1
• Operating system: Ubuntu

[rakeshpai]

I also tried npm cache clear --force to ensure that this wasn't some npm caching issue, but that didn't help any.

[ivaylopivanov]

@rakeshpai I had the same problem. Try with older node version, eg 6.6.0 works

[rennu]

I'm having this problem too but on node 8.5.0, npm 5.5.1 and macOs 10.12.6.

Using yarn instead of npm worked for me.

[lukeed]

Please try the suggestion here: https://github.com/developit/preact-cli/issues/424#issuecomment-341988315

[rakeshpai]

@lukeed chowning those directories didn't fix it for me, unfortunately. Still unable to install preact-cli. :( This does smell like an npm-related issue, though.

[ghost]

I had this error and I simply uninstalled npm and node globally.
Then i installed nvm from https://github.com/creationix/nvm
then

1. nvm install node
2. npm install preact-cli -g
   Voila! everything worked in a single go.

[ForsakenHarmony]

That probably moves the global dir to the user folder as well

@rakeshpai can you try https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions#option-two-change-npms-default-directory ?

[ghost]

I tried fixing permission ones and then I have reinstall ubuntu. I have somehow bricked it. I found it better then other choices.

[dandv]

I've installed node using n (so I'm doing option 1 from https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions), and am also seeing this issue.

Going option 2 (npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global') results in an EACCESS error:

~$ npm install -g preact-cli
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of ajv@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
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!   stack: '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! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

Setting permissions as described in this comment finally fixed the after an hour of mucking around :-/

[vijaysutar]

Faced same issue on Mac os Sierra.
Changed node version to 6.6.0 and then it worked.

$ npm install -g n
$ n 6.6.0