This is a pretty common issue where you try to runnpm install or npm install -g and you get this error saying:

Well, this is pretty annoying. But there is a simple way to fix this, on Ubuntu and it should theoretically work on any other Linux/*nix system including OS X. Do comment if it doesn’t work for you.

The above code should fix the issue. Make sure the directory you’re working in also belongs to $(whoami) – which pretty much gets replaced by your current username – ubuntu on my server.  The -R flag means to do it recursively.

I’ve just confirmed that this works on OS X as well, have fun!

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