ERROR: Failed to set up Chromium r768783! Set "PUPPETEER_SKIP_DOWNLOAD" env variable to skip download.

Hello,

I’m trying to set up decktape by running

sudo npm install -g decktape

I get the following error

Password: /usr/local/bin/decktape -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/decktape.js

> puppeteer@5.1.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/puppeteer
> node install.js

ERROR: Failed to set up Chromium r768783! Set "PUPPETEER_SKIP_DOWNLOAD" env variable to skip download.
[Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium'] {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! puppeteer@5.1.0 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the puppeteer@5.1.0 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/michelefioretti/.npm/_logs/2020-08-24T16_26_42_443Z-debug.log

Any idea on how to solve this issue? Thank you so much.

[michelefioretti]

It works if I run it as a chunk. Thank you for all your help!

[astefanutti]

You cannot provide a .Rmd file to decktape. It has to be a HTML file, as it is done at:

https://github.com/ScPoEcon/ScPoEconometrics-Slides/blob/f706a9567aafa448b71eba5bdff3145b12aa1838/chapter1/chapter1.Rmd#L865