RPi4 ubuntu-standard default installation permission issue

[baqwas]

Hello,

I've run into a beginner permission issue with the default installation instructions on Raspberry Pi 4 using ubuntu-server 19.10.1 pre-installed image. Here is the partial output:

ubuntu@raspbari28:~/projects$ git clone https://github.com/meanjs/mean.git
Cloning into 'mean'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 26, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (26/26), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25/25), done.
remote: Total 10697 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 10671
Receiving objects: 100% (10697/10697), 3.82 MiB | 9.35 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5441/5441), done.
ubuntu@raspbari28:~/projects$ cd mean
ubuntu@raspbari28:~/projects/mean$ sudo npm install
npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! Command failed: git clone --depth=1 -q -b fix/https-agent-vuln git://github.com/snyk/node-https-proxy-agent.git /root/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-6ca7be8b
npm ERR! fatal: could not create leading directories of '/root/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-6ca7be8b': Permission denied
npm ERR! 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2019-12-16T03_08_28_127Z-debug.log
ubuntu@raspbari28:~/projects/mean$ npm start

> meanjs@0.6.0 start /home/ubuntu/projects/mean

As I understand it, the ubuntu-server image uses ubuntu as the user with elevated privileges. I am running the installation command (viz. sudo npm install) which in my naivete I assume should preclude the issue experienced above. Please advise on how to correct my mistake. Thanks.

$ uname -a
Linux raspbari28 5.3.0-1014-raspi2 #16-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 26 11:18:23 UTC 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

• MongoDB was installed successfully using the 18.10 package for ARM64
• Node (v13.3.0 & npm v6.13.1) was installed from NodeSource.org

[dalelotts]

it's safe to say this project is no longer maintained. It's been years since the last commit.