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Getting issue when i was give this npm install -g react-native-cli

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Apples-MacBook-Pro:~ Mac$ npm install -g react-native-cli
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!   stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/local/lib/node_modules\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Mac/.npm/_logs/2018-06-06T09_15_48_372Z-debug.log
Apples-MacBook-Pro:~ Mac$

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Created 5 years ago
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iamnashdevcommented, Jun 6, 2018

try with sudo : sudo npm install -g react-native-cli

it is installed globally and therefore require permissions

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ibrahimabcommented, Jun 7, 2018

sudo will solve this, but you should not be using that. This means node was installed in the wrong way. You should try to uninstall node and install it via homebrew. Allowing node sudo access with third party packages is just stupid.