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Add helpful messaging when sudo npm install fails #2

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sanathkr opened this issue Aug 23, 2017 · 1 comment
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Add helpful messaging when sudo npm install fails #2

sanathkr opened this issue Aug 23, 2017 · 1 comment
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@sanathkr
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See aws/aws-sam-cli#66

If you had installed npm using sudo, then the bin directories where go-npm tries to install the binaries are owned by root. We get EACCESS when trying to move the file from ./bin to npm bin directory.

Catch the error and provide helpful instructions. Link to https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions
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@sanathkr https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions doesn't help. any suggestions?

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