Permission Denied Error when trying to re-install plugin

[JGunner1970]

Having uninstalled everything and re-installed Homebrige itself, I am now unable to re-install HarmonyHub plugin due to a Permission Denied error. Here is the contents of the log:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', 1 verbose cli '/usr/local/bin/npm', 1 verbose cli 'install', 1 verbose cli '-g', 1 verbose cli 'homebridge-harmonyhub', 1 verbose cli '--unsafe-perm' ] 2 info using npm@5.5.1 3 info using node@v6.11.4 4 verbose npm-session e1ec20c58471d056 5 silly install loadCurrentTree 6 silly install readGlobalPackageData 7 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/homebridge-harmonyhub 483ms (from cache) 8 silly pacote tag manifest for homebridge-harmonyhub@latest fetched in 503ms 9 silly install loadIdealTree 10 silly install cloneCurrentTreeToIdealTree 11 silly install loadShrinkwrap 12 silly install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree 13 silly resolveWithNewModule homebridge-harmonyhub@0.3.0-alpha.2 checking installable status 14 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/debug 34ms (from cache) 15 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits 29ms (from cache) 16 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bluebird 37ms (from cache) 17 silly pacote range manifest for debug@^2.2.0 fetched in 42ms 18 silly resolveWithNewModule debug@2.6.9 checking installable status 19 silly pacote range manifest for inherits@^2.0.1 fetched in 38ms 20 silly resolveWithNewModule inherits@2.0.3 checking installable status 21 silly pacote range manifest for bluebird@^3.3.4 fetched in 45ms 22 silly resolveWithNewModule bluebird@3.5.1 checking installable status 23 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/harmonyhubjs-discover 65ms (from cache) 24 silly pacote range manifest for harmonyhubjs-discover@^1.0.2 fetched in 65ms 25 silly resolveWithNewModule harmonyhubjs-discover@1.0.3 checking installable status 26 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash 115ms (from cache) 27 silly pacote range manifest for lodash@^4.6 fetched in 124ms 28 silly resolveWithNewModule lodash@4.17.4 checking installable status 29 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/queue 130ms (from cache) 30 silly pacote range manifest for queue@^3.1.0 fetched in 132ms 31 silly resolveWithNewModule queue@3.1.0 checking installable status 32 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for harmonyhubjs-client@github:e7hz3r0/harmonyhubjs-client Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone --depth=1 -q -b master git://github.com/e7hz3r0/harmonyhubjs-client.git /Users/Jonathan/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-109c9395 32 silly fetchPackageMetaData /Users/Jonathan/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-109c9395/.git: Permission denied 33 verbose stack Error: Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone --depth=1 -q -b master git://github.com/e7hz3r0/harmonyhubjs-client.git /Users/Jonathan/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-109c9395 33 verbose stack /Users/Jonathan/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-109c9395/.git: Permission denied 33 verbose stack 33 verbose stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:198:12) 33 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) 33 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7) 33 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16) 33 verbose stack at Socket. (internal/child_process.js:351:11) 33 verbose stack at emitOne (events.js:96:13) 33 verbose stack at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7) 33 verbose stack at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:497:12) 34 verbose cwd /Users/Jonathan 35 verbose Darwin 17.2.0 36 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "homebridge-harmonyhub" "--unsafe-perm" 37 verbose node v6.11.4 38 verbose npm v5.5.1 39 error code 1 40 error Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone --depth=1 -q -b master git://github.com/e7hz3r0/harmonyhubjs-client.git /Users/Jonathan/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-109c9395 40 error /Users/Jonathan/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-109c9395/.git: Permission denied 41 verbose exit [ 1, true ] `

[Makk1000]

Downgrade npm to version 4. npm install -g npm@4

Install homebridge harmony-hub

Then update your npm version back to 5

That should do the trick

[JGunner1970]

Thank you @Makk1000 that has now worked!

[arnotron]

I ran into the same issue and this tip seems to have helped. However, after doing some research, it sounds to me like using a ssh://git@github.com URL, where a https://github.com URL should be. Maybe the developers can have a look at this?