lukasroegner / homebridge-apple-tv-remote

Plugin for controlling Apple TVs in homebridge.
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Permission issues with installing node-appletv-x #24

Closed atravis62 closed 4 years ago

atravis62 commented 4 years ago

Im totally new at this so please forgive me but could you help me out trying to allow permission so i can install node-appletv-x? I attached the error i keep getting. Thannk you.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm install -g node-appletv-x npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! syscall access npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules npm ERR! errno -13 npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules' npm ERR! [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules'] { npm ERR! stack: "Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules'", npm ERR! errno: -13, npm ERR! code: 'EACCES', npm ERR! syscall: 'access', npm ERR! path: '/usr/lib/node_modules' npm ERR! } npm ERR! npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system. npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user npm ERR! npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-04-17T16_39_20_134Z-debug.log

lukasroegner commented 4 years ago

There are many blog posts and tutorials on the internet on how to solve permission issues with node in Linux. I would suggest to try with sudo at first.

atravis62 commented 4 years ago

That was it, thank you. I have a lot more learning to do