Permissions Issue when installing expo-cli

Expo Development Tools
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Hi,

I followed the steps on expo to first download node v12.2.0. Right after that I tried installing the expo client by entering ‘sudo npm install expo-cli --global’ into my terminal. Unfortunately, I’ve been getting permissions issues and the installation is unsuccessful every time.

gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/iltorb/.node-gyp’
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.5.0
gyp ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “rebuild”
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/iltorb
gyp ERR! node -v v12.2.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok

ERR! sharp EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/Users/amol/.npm/_libvips’
info sharp Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error
info sharp Please see sharp - High performance Node.js image processing for required dependencies
gyp WARN EACCES user “root” does not have permission to access the dev dir “/Users/amol/.node-gyp/12.2.0”
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir “/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/sharp/.node-gyp”
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/sharp/.node-gyp’
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.5.0
gyp ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “rebuild”
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v12.2.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno 1

npm ERR! sharp@0.22.1 install: (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)

npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the sharp@0.22.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/amol/.npm/_logs/2019-05-20T14_44_49_351Z-debug.log

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Dunno what might be wrong. But here are two suggestions from SO:

  1. Make sure you’re using the correct npm (as sudoer). That is, maybe your npm isn’t installed in /usr/local/bin; maybe it’s in /usr/bin as like this post: node.js - Getting permission error while trying to install @angular/cli - Stack Overflow
  2. Try using --unsafe-perm. I forget what issue I was having myself recently, but that did the trick when installing globally as root; sometimes the UID gets set to the nobody user and fails. See, for example, this post: node.js - gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/www/project_name/node_modules/node-sass/build' - Stack Overflow
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Hi Jimbeau,
Thanks for the swift reply. I have applied given solution but still facing same issue. Can you please help me…

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