create-react-app fails with permission denied












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I'm getting a weird error:



Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36'atus


I just install npm (6.4.1) and node (11.2.0) on an AWS instance without problems. I installed create-react-app globally. The error says This is an error with npm itself.



I'm kind of at a loss. I created the directory /home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14 and it still wouldn't succeed. I obviously own and have write permissions in /home/ubuntu.



It looks like it succeeds with sudo. why ?



Edit: ubuntu:ubuntu owns the current and parent directory (I'm in /home/ubuntu/workspace)










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  • Try installing NodeJS with NVM. You won't face problems with permissions

    – Tico
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:32











  • Try on the command line the following shell command: mkdir - p '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36' however, make sure you run the command with the same user ID that you use for the installation. That is just for a quick test! Ops, one more thing to add. You mentioned that you have the answer already :) "It looks like it succeeds with sudo." OK, sudo has write privileges across the entire file system.

    – Krassi Em
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:40













  • What is the owner and permission of this directory, and the recursively parent directory?

    – Geno Chen
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:44











  • added comment, current users owns (and as I said has write permissions) in the current directory

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:28
















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I'm getting a weird error:



Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36'atus


I just install npm (6.4.1) and node (11.2.0) on an AWS instance without problems. I installed create-react-app globally. The error says This is an error with npm itself.



I'm kind of at a loss. I created the directory /home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14 and it still wouldn't succeed. I obviously own and have write permissions in /home/ubuntu.



It looks like it succeeds with sudo. why ?



Edit: ubuntu:ubuntu owns the current and parent directory (I'm in /home/ubuntu/workspace)










share|improve this question

























  • Try installing NodeJS with NVM. You won't face problems with permissions

    – Tico
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:32











  • Try on the command line the following shell command: mkdir - p '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36' however, make sure you run the command with the same user ID that you use for the installation. That is just for a quick test! Ops, one more thing to add. You mentioned that you have the answer already :) "It looks like it succeeds with sudo." OK, sudo has write privileges across the entire file system.

    – Krassi Em
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:40













  • What is the owner and permission of this directory, and the recursively parent directory?

    – Geno Chen
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:44











  • added comment, current users owns (and as I said has write permissions) in the current directory

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:28














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I'm getting a weird error:



Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36'atus


I just install npm (6.4.1) and node (11.2.0) on an AWS instance without problems. I installed create-react-app globally. The error says This is an error with npm itself.



I'm kind of at a loss. I created the directory /home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14 and it still wouldn't succeed. I obviously own and have write permissions in /home/ubuntu.



It looks like it succeeds with sudo. why ?



Edit: ubuntu:ubuntu owns the current and parent directory (I'm in /home/ubuntu/workspace)










share|improve this question
















I'm getting a weird error:



Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36'atus


I just install npm (6.4.1) and node (11.2.0) on an AWS instance without problems. I installed create-react-app globally. The error says This is an error with npm itself.



I'm kind of at a loss. I created the directory /home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14 and it still wouldn't succeed. I obviously own and have write permissions in /home/ubuntu.



It looks like it succeeds with sudo. why ?



Edit: ubuntu:ubuntu owns the current and parent directory (I'm in /home/ubuntu/workspace)







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  • Try installing NodeJS with NVM. You won't face problems with permissions

    – Tico
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:32











  • Try on the command line the following shell command: mkdir - p '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36' however, make sure you run the command with the same user ID that you use for the installation. That is just for a quick test! Ops, one more thing to add. You mentioned that you have the answer already :) "It looks like it succeeds with sudo." OK, sudo has write privileges across the entire file system.

    – Krassi Em
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:40













  • What is the owner and permission of this directory, and the recursively parent directory?

    – Geno Chen
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:44











  • added comment, current users owns (and as I said has write permissions) in the current directory

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:28



















  • Try installing NodeJS with NVM. You won't face problems with permissions

    – Tico
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:32











  • Try on the command line the following shell command: mkdir - p '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36' however, make sure you run the command with the same user ID that you use for the installation. That is just for a quick test! Ops, one more thing to add. You mentioned that you have the answer already :) "It looks like it succeeds with sudo." OK, sudo has write privileges across the entire file system.

    – Krassi Em
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:40













  • What is the owner and permission of this directory, and the recursively parent directory?

    – Geno Chen
    Nov 24 '18 at 6:44











  • added comment, current users owns (and as I said has write permissions) in the current directory

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:28

















Try installing NodeJS with NVM. You won't face problems with permissions

– Tico
Nov 24 '18 at 6:32





Try installing NodeJS with NVM. You won't face problems with permissions

– Tico
Nov 24 '18 at 6:32













Try on the command line the following shell command: mkdir - p '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36' however, make sure you run the command with the same user ID that you use for the installation. That is just for a quick test! Ops, one more thing to add. You mentioned that you have the answer already :) "It looks like it succeeds with sudo." OK, sudo has write privileges across the entire file system.

– Krassi Em
Nov 24 '18 at 6:40







Try on the command line the following shell command: mkdir - p '/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36' however, make sure you run the command with the same user ID that you use for the installation. That is just for a quick test! Ops, one more thing to add. You mentioned that you have the answer already :) "It looks like it succeeds with sudo." OK, sudo has write privileges across the entire file system.

– Krassi Em
Nov 24 '18 at 6:40















What is the owner and permission of this directory, and the recursively parent directory?

– Geno Chen
Nov 24 '18 at 6:44





What is the owner and permission of this directory, and the recursively parent directory?

– Geno Chen
Nov 24 '18 at 6:44













added comment, current users owns (and as I said has write permissions) in the current directory

– xyious
Nov 24 '18 at 7:28





added comment, current users owns (and as I said has write permissions) in the current directory

– xyious
Nov 24 '18 at 7:28












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TL;TR



Run:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER '/home/ubuntu/.npm/'


On Linux OS NPM and NodeJS are installed globally with sudo and the owner of that files is the root and usually a user can only read/execute that packages. When NPM is stalled a ~/.npm/ folder is created by the root. By running create-react-app you are executing the command as user and create-react-app is trying to modify something in the ~/.npm/ directory which is owned by the root and not to current user. You need to change the owner of that directory to you, so you can modify it without sudo privileges.



Often similar thing happens when you install NPM package with sudo e.g. sudo npm install <package> --save. Again the newly installed package in owned by the root and for example when you try to update/modufy/delete your project without sudo infrnt of NPM you will have similar permission error. In these cases navigate to your project directory and change its owner by running:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .





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    +1 .... apparently when the first thing I install is with sudo and -g the /home/user/.npm folder isn't owned by me.

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:33











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Run:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER '/home/ubuntu/.npm/'


On Linux OS NPM and NodeJS are installed globally with sudo and the owner of that files is the root and usually a user can only read/execute that packages. When NPM is stalled a ~/.npm/ folder is created by the root. By running create-react-app you are executing the command as user and create-react-app is trying to modify something in the ~/.npm/ directory which is owned by the root and not to current user. You need to change the owner of that directory to you, so you can modify it without sudo privileges.



Often similar thing happens when you install NPM package with sudo e.g. sudo npm install <package> --save. Again the newly installed package in owned by the root and for example when you try to update/modufy/delete your project without sudo infrnt of NPM you will have similar permission error. In these cases navigate to your project directory and change its owner by running:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .





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    +1 .... apparently when the first thing I install is with sudo and -g the /home/user/.npm folder isn't owned by me.

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:33
















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TL;TR



Run:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER '/home/ubuntu/.npm/'


On Linux OS NPM and NodeJS are installed globally with sudo and the owner of that files is the root and usually a user can only read/execute that packages. When NPM is stalled a ~/.npm/ folder is created by the root. By running create-react-app you are executing the command as user and create-react-app is trying to modify something in the ~/.npm/ directory which is owned by the root and not to current user. You need to change the owner of that directory to you, so you can modify it without sudo privileges.



Often similar thing happens when you install NPM package with sudo e.g. sudo npm install <package> --save. Again the newly installed package in owned by the root and for example when you try to update/modufy/delete your project without sudo infrnt of NPM you will have similar permission error. In these cases navigate to your project directory and change its owner by running:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .





share|improve this answer





















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    +1 .... apparently when the first thing I install is with sudo and -g the /home/user/.npm folder isn't owned by me.

    – xyious
    Nov 24 '18 at 7:33














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TL;TR



Run:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER '/home/ubuntu/.npm/'


On Linux OS NPM and NodeJS are installed globally with sudo and the owner of that files is the root and usually a user can only read/execute that packages. When NPM is stalled a ~/.npm/ folder is created by the root. By running create-react-app you are executing the command as user and create-react-app is trying to modify something in the ~/.npm/ directory which is owned by the root and not to current user. You need to change the owner of that directory to you, so you can modify it without sudo privileges.



Often similar thing happens when you install NPM package with sudo e.g. sudo npm install <package> --save. Again the newly installed package in owned by the root and for example when you try to update/modufy/delete your project without sudo infrnt of NPM you will have similar permission error. In these cases navigate to your project directory and change its owner by running:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .





share|improve this answer















TL;TR



Run:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER '/home/ubuntu/.npm/'


On Linux OS NPM and NodeJS are installed globally with sudo and the owner of that files is the root and usually a user can only read/execute that packages. When NPM is stalled a ~/.npm/ folder is created by the root. By running create-react-app you are executing the command as user and create-react-app is trying to modify something in the ~/.npm/ directory which is owned by the root and not to current user. You need to change the owner of that directory to you, so you can modify it without sudo privileges.



Often similar thing happens when you install NPM package with sudo e.g. sudo npm install <package> --save. Again the newly installed package in owned by the root and for example when you try to update/modufy/delete your project without sudo infrnt of NPM you will have similar permission error. In these cases navigate to your project directory and change its owner by running:



sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .






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+1 .... apparently when the first thing I install is with sudo and -g the /home/user/.npm folder isn't owned by me.

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