Global install: Permission denied in wd dependency

[reda-alaoui]

On Ubuntu 17.10, I had a hard time installing web-component-tester globally.

[13:56:26] rhousni@rhousni:~/Downloads $ sudo npm install -g web-component-testernpm WARN deprecated @types/assert@0.0.29: See https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/issues/12826
npm WARN deprecated isarray@2.0.1: Just use Array.isArray directly
/usr/bin/rimraf -> /usr/lib/node_modules/rimraf/bin.js
/usr/bin/wct -> /usr/lib/node_modules/web-component-tester/bin/wct
/usr/bin/wct-st -> /usr/lib/node_modules/web-component-tester/bin/wct-st

> uws@9.14.0 install /usr/lib/node_modules/web-component-tester/node_modules/uws
> node-gyp rebuild > build_log.txt 2>&1 || exit 0

sh: 1: cannot create build_log.txt: Permission denied

> wd@1.6.1 install /usr/lib/node_modules/web-component-tester/node_modules/wd
> node scripts/build-browser-scripts

/opt/nodejs/node_modules/web-component-tester/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:90
                    throw err0;
                    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/opt/nodejs/node_modules/web-component-tester/node_modules/wd/build'
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:885:18)
    at sync (/opt/nodejs/node_modules/web-component-tester/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:71:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/nodejs/node_modules/web-component-tester/node_modules/wd/scripts/build-browser-scripts.js:6:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:676:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! wd@1.6.1 install: `node scripts/build-browser-scripts`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the wd@1.6.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

It is caused by https://github.com/admc/wd/issues/483 and https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17346.

The current workaround is to add --unsafe-perm argument.

$ sudo npm install -g web-component-tester --unsafe-perm

[valyrie97]

this also happens on my fresh install of macos 10.14.1

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