cannot create mongo_hacker.js: Permission denied

[stefanocudini]

on Debian 8, Node v8.4.0, Npm v 5.3.0

run by root...

# npm install -g mongo-hacker

> mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install /usr/lib/node_modules/mongo-hacker
> make install

cat config.js base.js hacks/color.js hacks/common.js hacks/aggregation.js hacks/old_aggregation.js hacks/uuid.js hacks/find_and_modify.js hacks/prompt.js hacks/auto_complete.js hacks/dbref.js hacks/helpers.js hacks/cmd_search.js hacks/show.js hacks/ps.js hacks/verbose.js hacks/randomise.js hacks/api.js hacks/index_paranoia.js hacks/sh_status.js hacks/count.js > mongo_hacker.js
/bin/sh: 1: cannot create mongo_hacker.js: Permission denied
Makefile:10: recipe for target 'mongo_hacker.js' failed
make: *** [mongo_hacker.js] Error 2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install: `make install`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the mongo-hacker@0.0.15 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!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-09-05T18_09_50_908Z-debug.log

[TylerBrock]

Please do not run the install command as root. Install node + npm so that they don't require a root user to run.

[stefanocudini]

run by user.. it's the same

user@myhost:~$ sudo npm install -g mongo-hacker

> mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install /usr/lib/node_modules/mongo-hacker
> make install

cat config.js base.js hacks/color.js hacks/common.js hacks/aggregation.js hacks/old_aggregation.js hacks/uuid.js hacks/find_and_modify.js hacks/prompt.js hacks/auto_complete.js hacks/dbref.js hacks/helpers.js hacks/cmd_search.js hacks/show.js hacks/ps.js hacks/verbose.js hacks/randomise.js hacks/api.js hacks/index_paranoia.js hacks/sh_status.js hacks/count.js > mongo_hacker.js
/bin/sh: 1: cannot create mongo_hacker.js: Permission denied
Makefile:10: recipe for target 'mongo_hacker.js' failed
make: *** [mongo_hacker.js] Error 2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install: `make install`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the mongo-hacker@0.0.15 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!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-09-05T18_14_56_276Z-debug.log

[TylerBrock]

Ok thanks for the info, sorry you are having trouble. The user that you are running this as needs to have permission to write to the home directory. Make sure that this is the case.

/bin/sh: 1: cannot create mongo_hacker.js: Permission denied
Makefile:10: recipe for target 'mongo_hacker.js' failed

[gyscos]

Probably a duplicate of #154

[jwerre]

This worked for me:

$ sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/lib/node_modules
$ npm install -g mongo-hacker
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/node_modules

[adamelliotfields]

sudo npm install --global --unsafe-perm mongo-hacker

Post-install scripts are normally prohibited by root (for good reason); the --unsafe-perm flag allows these scripts to run.

If you can, use NVM instead of installing Node directly, as NVM will let you run npm install --global without sudo.

On my Mac with NVM, npm install --global mongo-hacker works fine 👍

[snippet]

thks @adamelliotfields