node-gyp – TimJRobinson / Always be learning Wed, 24 Jun 2020 02:58:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Fixing node-gyp: Permission Denied when running as root /fixing-node-gyp-permission-denied-when-running-as-root/ /fixing-node-gyp-permission-denied-when-running-as-root/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2020 02:58:11 +0000 /?p=281 … →]]> This node-gyp permission denied issue happens when, as the root user, you globally install node modules that require compilation with node-gyp. As root is the default user on Digital Ocean this seems to affect many people and should probably be fixed at the root cause.

Luckily there is a pretty simple workaround for this:

npm config set user 0

The other solution is to create a regular user and install everything as them. This is safer as installing modules as root means they could do anything to your system. I’d recommend installing all node modules as a normal user without root access if you’re on a machine with anything important on it.

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