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Pipelines: Permission Denied on Global NPM Install

Pipelines: Permission Denied on Global NPM Install

Attempting to install a global NPM package, for example @angular/cli, results in a permission denied error.

The pipelines configuration is pretty simple:

image: atlassian/default-image:2pipelines: custom: production: - step: name: Build & Deploy Project deployment: production script: - npm install -g @angular/cli@6.0.0 - npm install -g gulp-cli - cd web/web.cmor - npm install - gulp prod - ng build --prod

The resulting failure reads like this:

npm install -g @angular/cli@6.0.0/root/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/bin/ng -> /root/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng> @angular/cli@6.0.0 postinstall /root/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli> node ./bin/ng-update-message.jssh: 1: node: Permission deniednpm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.3 (node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/fsevents):npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})npm ERR! file shnpm ERR! code ELIFECYCLEnpm ERR! errno ENOENTnpm ERR! syscall spawnnpm ERR! @angular/cli@6.0.0 postinstall: `node ./bin/ng-update-message.js`npm ERR! spawn ENOENTnpm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the @angular/cli@6.0.0 postinstall 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/2018-05-08T16_23_15_479Z-debug.log

2 answers

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The best way I found to install NPM packages globally with Bitbucket Pipelines was to set the user to root:

script:
- npm -g config set user root
- npm install -g packagename

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54290720/8742362