Fails to install on a Mac due to error with dependency phantomjs (prebuilt)

[ndeeH]

1. Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run phantomjs --version. v2.1.1/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip

2. What steps will reproduce the problem?

   1. we wanted to install vorlonjs (sudo npm i -g vorlon)
   2. this fails due to an EACCES when installing a link

      Copying extracted folder /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom
      Phantom installation failed { Error: EACCES: permission denied, link '/tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx' -> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom'
      errno: -13,
      code: 'EACCES',
      syscall: 'link',
      path: '/tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx',
      dest: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom' } Error: EACCES: permission denied, link '/tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx' -> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom'
      npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
      npm ERR! errno 1
      npm ERR! phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: `node install.js`
      npm ERR! Exit status 1

3. Which operating system are you using? mac os x el capitan (10.11.6)

4. Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?

5. Please provide any additional information below.

   
   Considering PhantomJS found at /usr/local/bin/phantomjs

Looks like an npm install -g

Found PhantomJS at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs ...verifying

Writing location.js file

Error checking path, continuing { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/location.js'

at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)

at Object.fs.writeFileSync (fs.js:1291:33)

at writeLocationFile (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/util.js:84:6)

at Promise._successFn (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/install.js:366:11)

at nextTickCallback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/kew/kew.js:47:28)

at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:131:7)

at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

errno: -13,

code: 'EACCES',

syscall: 'open',

path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/location.js' }

Downloading https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs/releases/download/v2.1.1/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip

Saving to /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip

Receiving...

[========================================] 99%

Received 16746K total.

Extracting zip contents

Removing /usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom

Copying extracted folder /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom

Phantom installation failed { Error: EACCES: permission denied, link '/tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx' -> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom'

errno: -13,

code: 'EACCES',

syscall: 'link',

path: '/tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx',

dest: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom' } Error: EACCES: permission denied, link '/tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip-extract-1517823958480/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx' -> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom'

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno 1

npm ERR! phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: node install.js

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Failed at the phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 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!

[Innercode]

Same issue on Ubuntu as well.

[Innercode]

@weird-dreams Can you try to install with the sudo npm i -g vorlon --unsafe-perm command? It works for me :)

[yacineblr]

Same of me on Ubuntu 16.04

Thanks @Innercode for solution !

[MarkEhr]

I could install it in nvm node installation even without sudo, native and n ones wouldn't work

[vorti2]

Same here on my MacOS 10.14.3 (Mojave):

> npm i -g vorlon --unsafe-perm
npm WARN deprecated jade@1.9.2: Jade has been renamed to pug, please install the latest version of pug instead of jade
npm WARN deprecated transformers@2.1.0: Deprecated, use jstransformer
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
/Users/xx/.nvm/versions/node/v11.0.0/bin/vorlon -> /Users/xx/.nvm/versions/node/v11.0.0/lib/node_modules/vorlon/bin/vorlon

> phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install /Users/xx/.nvm/versions/node/v11.0.0/lib/node_modules/vorlon/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
> node install.js

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Downloading https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs/releases/download/v2.1.1/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip
Saving to /var/folders/tr/hkwh1479211gv8pxj0mcznw40000gp/T/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip
Receiving...

Error making request.
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 10.4.11.76:443
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1117:14)

Please report this full log at https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

phantom.js can't be downloaded from Github.

[Hansel-Christopher]

had the same error, changed my node version to v6 lts from v12 with nvm and it worked. hope it helps :)