Taiko: Taiko install failure

[crogger62]

Expected behavior

Tried to install Taiko per github instructions:
npm install -g taiko

Actual behavior

ERROR: Failed to download Chromium r571040! Set "SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD" env variable to skip download.
{ Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/taiko/.local-chromium'
errno: -13,
code: 'EACCES',
syscall: 'mkdir',
path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/taiko/.local-chromium' }
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: node lib/install.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! /home/crog/.npm/_logs/2018-08-24T14_39_57_874Z-debug.log

Steps to reproduce

npm install -g taiko

Versions

installed on ubuntu 16.04 LTS
npm version 6.4.0
node version 8.11.4
taiko v0.1.0 (?) 

[sriv]

I could see the same issue. I could successfully install using sudo i.e. sudo npm install -g taiko

It seems that in linux there could be a permission issue to write to /usr/local/lib/node_modules which is the default node prefix location.

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib/node_modules could also be an option that is suggested by various folks on various forums.

[zabil]

There are other issues install npm modules with sudo for e.g launching the chrome browser fails on taiko REPL
For linux systems the best option is to set a custom npm install location

We've mentioned it in Getting Started but Taiko must have a better way to handle this as the steps are elaborate and not easy for noobs.

[crogger62]

Yes, it turned out to be a permissions issue and more of an npm install issue. Once fixed Taiko worked as expected! sriv's suggestion worked best. Thanks!

[mohan-murali]

I faced the same issue and even with sudo, i was getting the below error
EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/taiko/.local-chromium.

So i just went ahead and manually created the .local-chromium folder and then did npm install -g taiko. It worked.

[sriv]

also npm i -g --unsafe-perm taiko should work.