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Generator for UI5-based web-apps which use the official UI5 tooling and support multiple deployment targets such as the SAP Business Technology Platform
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npm global install fails on linux #10

Closed michelluther closed 3 years ago

michelluther commented 3 years ago

Dear team,

I am failing to npm install the generator in version 3.0.1 fails with authorization error on linux during the postinstallation.

This is what I do: sudo npm install generator-easy-ui5 -g

Maybe the sudo run as is not being propagated?

I have attached the result. installation_output.txt

Installation works fine with version 2.4.6.

Thanks a lot Michel

vobu commented 3 years ago

jep, the log hints to some dir confusion caused by sudo. just do a npm i -g yo generator-easy-ui5 (note the yo also being installed globally as a peer dep) hth, v.

vobu commented 3 years ago

(i closed this by accident, sorry. please reopen if necessary)

michelluther commented 3 years ago

Hi Volker,

thanks for looking into this.

It is the default behaviour for npm to install global packages into the folder /usr/lib/node_modules. Without sudo this will not work.

There are workarounds (like this one) for this, but by default, linux users will experience this, i believe. And so do i :-).

Cheers Michel

michelluther commented 3 years ago

I can confirm that the issue is resolved by changing the default folder for global packages for npm.

So it works for me now.

Cheers Michel