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Getting Permission Denied Error when Installing with NPM

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Node Version: v8.2.0
Npm Version: 5.2.0
Platform: Darwin Junies-MacBook-Pro-2.local 16.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jun 15 17:36:27 PDT 2017; root:xnu-3789.70.16~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Package Version:

When I run sudo npm install contentful I get the following error:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! Command failed: /usr/local/bin/git clone --depth=1 -q -b fix/https-via-http-proxy git://github.com/contentful/axios.git /Users/juniethreatt/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-e4d5168e
npm ERR! /Users/juniethreatt/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-e4d5168e/.git: Permission denied
npm ERR!

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/juniethreatt/.npm/_logs/2017-11-30T21_24_50_080Z-debug.log

I previously have "contentful": "^4.3.0", installed, but while trying to update other node packages, I got that error and now it seems it’s not installed at all anymore

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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sdelvalle57commented, Oct 4, 2018

I did sudo npm cache clean -f

For me that did the trick

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axe312gercommented, Dec 7, 2017

Sounds like a problem related to your machine for me. Also, you should never use sudo in combination with npm. I’d guess your file permissions are broken in your npm folder, you may try:

delete your npm cache
reset the permissions of your /Users/juniethreatt/.npm/ recoursively to your user.

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