npm installation fails on puppeteer install script

[mekkablue]

Running npm install -g glyphhanger or sudo npm install -g glyphhanger will result in the following deprecation warnings and the ELIFECYCLE error for puppetteer on macOS Catalina 10.15.7:

$ sudo npm install -g glyphhanger
npm WARN deprecated request-promise-native@1.0.9: request-promise-native has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
/usr/local/bin/glyphhanger -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/cmd.js

> puppeteer@8.0.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/node_modules/puppeteer
> node install.js

ERROR: Failed to set up Chromium r856583! Set "PUPPETEER_SKIP_DOWNLOAD" env variable to skip download.
[Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium'] {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! puppeteer@8.0.0 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the puppeteer@8.0.0 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!     /Users/mekka/.npm/_logs/2021-05-03T13_50_46_117Z-debug.log

[zachleat]

I just updated the puppeteer dependency from 8 to 12!

(New in glyphhanger 5)

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[monsieurm]

Hi ! Same error with puppeteer 12 dependency...

sudo npm install -g glyphhanger
npm WARN deprecated request-promise-native@1.0.9: request-promise-native has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
/usr/local/bin/glyphhanger -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/cmd.js

> puppeteer@12.0.1 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/node_modules/puppeteer
> node install.js

ERROR: Failed to set up Chromium r938248! Set "PUPPETEER_SKIP_DOWNLOAD" env variable to skip download.
{ [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium']
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path:
   '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/glyphhanger/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium' }
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! puppeteer@12.0.1 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the puppeteer@12.0.1 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!     /Users/mrenaut/.npm/_logs/2022-05-03T08_15_27_937Z-debug.log

[monsieurm]

Ok fine with sudo npm install -g glyphhanger --unsafe-perm