Getting a permission error when installing with bower
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Solution 1
Tried with sudo ?
sudo bower install --allow-root
sudo bower install jquery
Another solution is to change the chown of your configstore folder
sudo chown -R Andreas:Andreas /Users/Andreas/.config/configstore/
bower init
bower install jquery
If there are more errors with eaccess, expand the chown to your whole home folder
Solution 2
Here is the fix, run below commands. it should work.
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.npm
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.config
Solution 3
Change the json bower configuration file .bowerrc which looks like
{
"directory": "www/lib"
}
to look like
{
"directory": "www/lib",
"allow_root": true
}
Author by
Trains712
Updated on March 16, 2020Comments
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Trains712 about 4 years
Everytime I try to install something with Bower I get a permission error like this:
Andreass-MacBook-Air:openMedia Andreas$ bower install jquery /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/configstore/index.js:56 throw err; ^ Error: EACCES, permission denied '/Users/Andreas/.config/configstore/bower-github.yml' You don't have access to this file. at Error (native) at Object.fs.openSync (evalmachine.<anonymous>:500:18) at Object.fs.readFileSync (evalmachine.<anonymous>:352:15) at Object.create.all.get (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/configstore/index.js:34:29) at Object.Configstore (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/configstore/index.js:27:44) at readCachedConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:22:23) at defaultConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:11:24) at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/index.js:40:32) at Module._compile (module.js:460:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10) Andreass-MacBook-Air:openMedia Andreas$
I imagine there might be an easy solution to this. But this is my first experience with Bower. Thanks in advance.