`npm install` fails: ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree

[meowcat]

Hi,

I tested getting Visualizer to run in a Node docker:

docker run -it --rm -p 8080:80 -v $(pwd):/nodeapp node bash
# in the docker: 
cd /nodeapp
npm install

This results in the following error. I tried with images node and node:16. Is this an obvious problem from my side?

root@96ac787d5393:/nodeapp# npm install
npm notice
npm notice New patch version of npm available! 8.1.2 -> 8.1.4
npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.1.4
npm notice Run npm install -g npm@8.1.4 to update!
npm notice
npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR!
npm ERR! While resolving: visualizer@2.138.0
npm ERR! Found: grunt@1.4.1
npm ERR! node_modules/grunt
npm ERR!   dev grunt@"^1.0.3" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer grunt@"~0.4.1" from grunt-rename@0.1.4
npm ERR! node_modules/grunt-rename
npm ERR!   dev grunt-rename@"^0.1.4" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! See /root/.npm/eresolve-report.txt for a full report.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-11-26T13_31_41_404Z-debug.log

[stropitek]

npm8 became stricter with peer dependencies. You should use a flag that forces the installation or use npm6

[meowcat]

Hi,

thanks. Is there a specific Node version this runs on? I now tried to install with npm install --force. This almost worked, I think, until in the end I got

> visualizer@2.138.0 postinstall
> npm run install-components && npm run install-browserified

npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
glob error [Error: EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/root/.npm/_logs'] {d.
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/root/.npm/_logs'
}
[..................] \ : WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
> visualizer@2.138.0 install-components
> bower install

/nodeapp/node_modules/bower/lib/node_modules/configstore/index.js:54disabled.
                                throw err;
                                ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/root/.config/configstore/bower-github.json'
You don't have access to this file.

    at Object.openSync (node:fs:585:3)
    at Object.readFileSync (node:fs:453:35)
    at Configstore.get (/nodeapp/node_modules/bower/lib/node_modules/configstore/index.js:35:26)
    at new Configstore (/nodeapp/node_modules/bower/lib/node_modules/configstore/index.js:28:45)
    at readCachedConfig (/nodeapp/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:19:23)
    at defaultConfig (/nodeapp/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:11:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/nodeapp/node_modules/bower/lib/index.js:16:32)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1097:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1149:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32) {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: '/root/.config/configstore/bower-github.json'
}

Node.js v17.1.0
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /nodeapp
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c npm run install-components && npm run install-browserified

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-11-26T15_37_50_581Z-debug.log

I am root on docker here, so I don't get why I should have access problems. (There are also some deprecation warnings, but I assume this is normal...)