Error trying to install yeoman and bower . PLZ Help.

[Dujaydis]

Hey guys im brand new at web dev and coding in general.

trying to install yeoman and bower by typing in terminal " npm install -g yo " and " npm install -g bower "

i realized that most of the time the problem is not having root access which i enable by " dsenableroot " which roots successfully but still gives the same error:

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo',
npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo',
npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
npm ERR!   fstream_stack: 
npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53',
npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Darwin 14.0.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "yo"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/Admin
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo
npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo'
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23
npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Admin/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[smikes]

It would probably be safer if you could switch to using nvm -- this will allow you to globally install packages like bower and yo which give you new commands, without having to be root.

To install nvm do:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.20.0/install.sh | bash
nvm use 0.10
npm install -g npm@latest
npm install -g yo
npm install -g bower

Alternatively, if you don't want to use nvm, you could use sudo --

sudo npm install -g yo
sudo npm install -g bower

[Dujaydis]

smikes! worked like a charm! used the sudo method.. however thanks for suggesting both ways im very eager to learn anything come across! hope ill be able to return the favor soon.

[smikes]

Great - it sounds like you have things sorted out. We will close the issue in about a week unless we hear back from you sooner.

hope ill be able to return the favor soon.

This is a really good community for that, and you will have numerous opportunities to "pay it forward" -- that is, to help someone else who's coming into it and learning about using npm packaged modules for frontend work (or someone like me, who's done back-end work but is new to front-end, etc.)

[othiym23]

Closing as resolved.