Permission denied for Git Clone when I do npm install

Question

I have git dependencies in my package.json file. When I do sudo npm install in my responsive application folder, I get this error

npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone --depth=1 -q -b master https://github.com/lrojas94/react-file-base64.git /home/admin1/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-462782fb npm ERR! /home/admin1/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-462782fb/.git: Permission denied npm ERR! npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/admin1/.npm/_logs/2017-07-18T08_58_10_906Z-debug.log admin1@ubuntu :~/hys_pms/ui$ nohup: appending output to 'nohup.out' 

This is my .json package

  { "name": "react-hys-app", "version": "0.1.0", "private": true, "dependencies": { "annogenerate": "^0.8.1", "bootstrap": "^3.3.7", "cors-prefetch-middleware": "^1.0.0", "es6-promise": "^4.1.0", "express": "^4.15.3", "fixed-data-table": "^0.6.4", "flexbox-react": "^4.4.0", "font-awesome": "^4.7.0", "images-upload-middleware": "^1.1.1", "isomorphic-fetch": "^2.2.1", "jquery": "^3.2.1", "react": "^15.3.1", "react-autosuggest": "^9.0.1", "react-avatar-cropper": "^0.1.3", "react-bootstrap": "^0.30.8", "react-bootstrap-autosuggest": "^0.5.0", "react-bootstrap-date-picker": "^5.0.1", "react-bootstrap-table": "^3.3.1", "react-checkbox-list": "0.0.2", "react-datepicker": "^0.51.0", "react-datetime": "^2.8.10", "react-dom": "^15.4.0", "react-dual-listbox": "^1.1.0", "react-edit": "^6.3.0", "react-file-base64": "git+https://github.com/lrojas94/react-file-base64.git", "react-flexbox-grid": "^1.1.3", "react-grid-layout": "^0.14.6", "react-images-uploader": "^1.0.1", "react-pagify": "^2.2.0", "react-panelgroup": "^1.0.2", "react-radio-button-group": "^1.2.5", "react-redux": "^5.0.4", "react-router": "^2.7.0", "react-s-alert": "^1.3.0", "react-select": "^1.0.0-rc.5", "react-visibility-toggles": "^1.1.1", "reactabular-resizable": "^8.9.0", "reactabular-table": "^8.9.0", "recompose": "^0.23.5", "redux": "^3.6.0", "redux-devtools-extension": "^2.13.0", "redux-thunk": "^2.2.0", "redux-undo": "^1.0.0-beta9-9-1", "reflexbox": "^3.0.0-0", "schema2object": "^0.4.0", "searchtabular": "^1.5.0", "segmentize": "^0.4.1", "sortabular": "^1.4.0", "table-resolver": "^3.1.0" }, "devDependencies": { "css-loader": "^0.28.4", "react-scripts": "0.9.5", "style-loader": "^0.18.2" }, "scripts": { "start": "react-scripts start", "build": "react-scripts build", "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom", "eject": "react-scripts eject" } } 

This line in package.json makes the problem.

"response-file-base64": "git + https://github.com/lrojas94/react-file-base64.git "

I am amazed at this problem. Please help.

Answer 1

I had exactly the same error when installing chimp (not from a git repo) after I upgraded from NodeJS 6.10 to 8.10 (and more importantly, to NPM 5.6.0). The problem is that npm 5 handles permissions / directories in a completely different way than npm 4.

The solution is to NEVER use sudo when starting npm 5. You will find cases where you have to use it with npm 4, but you do not need to use sudo with npm 5. If you install globally, this link can help you. This did not help me.

Since I was in the docker container, I could just change my docker file so that it does not use sudo, and then everything was fine. If this is not the case, I suggest you run as user (not root):

 cd ~ sudo rm -rf .npm cd <wherever your package.json/node_modules is> npm cache clean rm -rf node_modules npm install 

Answer 2

I don’t know if your problem is solved or not. Today I ran into the same problem as the problem: the ~ / .npm folder is messing with permission, so I changed the resolution as sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm and it works fine.

Answer 3

This is the wrong solution ( DON'T DO IT ), but it worked for me. Switch to superuser mode and then run npm install using sudo .

 sudo su sudo npm install 

Answer 4

This should solve the problem:

 git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://