Npm install failed with “cannot run in wd”

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The documentation says (also here):

If npm was invoked with root privileges, then it will change the uid to the user account or uid specified by the user config, which defaults to nobody. Set the unsafe-perm flag to run scripts with root privileges.

Your options are:

  1. Run npm install with the --unsafe-perm flag:

    [sudo] npm install --unsafe-perm

  2. Add the unsafe-perm flag to your package.json:

    "config": {
    "unsafe-perm":true
}

  3. Don’t use the preinstall script to install global modules, install them separately and then run the regular npm install without root privileges:

    sudo npm install -g coffee-script node-gyp
npm install

Related:

  • package.json for global module installation

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