Installation Fails Ubuntu

[halburgiss]

On Ubuntu 16.04:

root@lancelot:~# npm install axe-cli -g /usr/local/bin/axe -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/axe-cli

chromedriver@78.0.1 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/node_modules/chromedriver node install.js

ChromeDriver binary exists. Validating... ChromeDriver 78.0.3904.70 (edb9c9f3de0247fd912a77b7f6cae7447f6d3ad5-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#800})

ChromeDriver is already available at '/tmp/78.0.3904.70/chromedriver/chromedriver'. Copying to target path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver ChromeDriver installation failed { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver' at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:729:3) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/node_modules/chromedriver/install.js:283:10 errno: -13, syscall: 'mkdir', code: 'EACCES', path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver' } npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! chromedriver@78.0.1 install: node install.js npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the chromedriver@78.0.1 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/2019-11-05T21_48_44_831Z-debug.log

root@lancelot:~# node --version v10.8.0

root@lancelot:~# npm --version 6.13.0

The logs do not have anything more informative. The permissions on /usr/local/lib/node_modules are fine, 755. None of the folder structure is created.

root@lancelot:~# ll /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ total 60 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Nov 5 16:48 ./ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 7 15:30 ../ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 26 11:11 broken-link-checker/ drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 11 2018 cordova/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 21 2019 forever/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 17 2019 gulp/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 17 2019 gulp-cli/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 21 2019 ionic/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 5 2018 n/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 5 16:48 npm/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 21 2019 pm2/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 2 2018 @shopify/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 2019 typings/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 21 2019 vuepress/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 2019 yarn/

The only thing I can find is a broken symlink:

/usr/local/bin/axe -> ../lib/node_modules/axe-cli/axe-cli

Thanks.

[straker]

I'm not sure why chromedriver is unable to install on Ubuntu. Looking at chromedriver issues, someone did mention that it didn't work on 32-bit systems https://github.com/giggio/node-chromedriver/issues/147.

[halburgiss]

Thanks. This is on a 64bit system. I have a previously installed version of chromedrive in /usr/local/bin that I was using with Selenium. Any chance there is a conflict of some kind?

[straker]

Hard to say. Chromedriver is a fickle beast and has caused us tons of headaches. There's an option you can try to point it to the already installed version that might work https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-cli#chromedriver-path.

[halburgiss]

My immediate problem is when the install blows up, the filesystem is restored to the way it was, or maybe just nothing is ever created. The /usr/local/lib/node_modules/axe-cli/ directory does not exist. I've tried creating that manually, thinking maybe it will remain, but no, it's removed. Let me try manually installing and see where that gets me.

[halburgiss]

Installing manually and then running npm install, seems to work just fine on a quick test. Is there any downside to that? Thx.

[halburgiss]

This is working well enough, except when the npm global option is included. Not sure why, but otherwise we are good. Thx

[straker]

Glad it's working out. Ok if we close?

[halburgiss]

Yes, please close!