How should I be running `npm install …`?
Hello all,
The is my work email, I’m usually on IRC as “anadon”. My laptop broke, so
please humor the account change.
Following the guide at
https://medium.com/jeremy-keeshin/hello-world-for-javascript-with-npm-modules-in-the-browser-6020f82d1072
, I’m trying to run `npm install -g browserify` with the output below. This
is something others have certainly run into, but a quick google search does not
turn up any useful results. How should I be doing this?
```
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to
/gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path
/gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules
npm ERR!
errno -13 npm ERR!
Error: EACCES: permission denied, access
'/gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied,
access
'/gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules']
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR!'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access
\'/gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules\'',
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path:
npm ERR!
'/gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
The operation was rejected by your operating system. npm ERR!
It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current
user npm ERR!
npm ERR!
If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR!
permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running npm ERR!
the command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR!
A complete log of this run can be found in:npm ERR!
/home/marshjo/.npm/_logs/2020-04-30T14_50_56_150Z-debug.log
```
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Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?
Hello! Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 14:59 +, Josh Marshall a écrit : > Hello all, > > The is my work email, I’m usually on IRC as “anadon”. My laptop > broke, so please humor the account change. > > Following the guide at > https://medium.com/jeremy-keeshin/hello-world-for-javascript-with-npm-modules-in-the-browser-6020f82d1072 > , I’m trying to run `npm install -g browserify` with the output > below. This is something others have certainly run into, but a quick > google search does not turn up any useful results. How should I be > doing this? I am a mere guix user, so you may want to have another answer. You cannot install anything globally with NPM in guix, because NPM is installed in a read-only location (/gnu/store/). This is required for guix to work correctly. You can use this trick: https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/npm-global-without-sudo.md Basically, it tells NPM to install to your home directory. So that it is still installed in a central location, but this location is read- write. Vivien
RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?
This gets me what I need – thanks! From: Vivien Kraus Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 11:06:15 AM To: Josh Marshall ; help-guix Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: How should I be running `npm install …`? Hello! Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 14:59 +, Josh Marshall a écrit : > Hello all, > > The is my work email, I’m usually on IRC as “anadon”. My laptop > broke, so please humor the account change. > > Following the guide at > https://medium.com/jeremy-keeshin/hello-world-for-javascript-with-npm-modules-in-the-browser-6020f82d1072 > , I’m trying to run `npm install -g browserify` with the output > below. This is something others have certainly run into, but a quick > google search does not turn up any useful results. How should I be > doing this? I am a mere guix user, so you may want to have another answer. You cannot install anything globally with NPM in guix, because NPM is installed in a read-only location (/gnu/store/). This is required for guix to work correctly. You can use this trick: https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/npm-global-without-sudo.md Basically, it tells NPM to install to your home directory. So that it is still installed in a central location, but this location is read- write. Vivien --- The information in this email, including attachments, may be confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). If you believe you received this email by mistake, please notify the sender by return email as soon as possible.
Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?
Hey Josh, Josh Marshall writes: > Hello all, > > The is my work email, I’m usually on IRC as “anadon”. My laptop broke, so > please humor the account change. > > Following the guide at > https://medium.com/jeremy-keeshin/hello-world-for-javascript-with-npm-modules-in-the-browser-6020f82d1072 > , I’m trying to run `npm install -g browserify` with the output below. This > is something others have certainly run into, but a quick google search does > not turn up any useful results. How should I be doing this? By default, guix' npm wants to install to some location in the store, which is mounted read-only. If you want to use npm to manage package installations on guix, one workaround is to add something like the following to your `$HOME/.npmrc': --8<---cut here---start->8--- prefix=/home/anadon/opt --8<---cut here---end--->8--- You also need to make sure that `$HOME/opt/bin' is in your path afterwards. HTH, - Jelle
