Can't install on OSX

I’ve seen this issue posted here, followed a number of instructions and am not making progress.

Running: sudo npm install -g homebridge

Gets me:

curve25519@1.1.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/node_modules/curve25519
node-gyp rebuild

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
sh: node-gyp: command not found

bignum@0.11.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/node_modules/srp/node_modules/bignum
node-gyp configure build

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
sh: node-gyp: command not found

mdns@2.3.3 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/node_modules/mdns
node-gyp rebuild

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
sh: node-gyp: command not found

ed25519@0.0.3 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/node_modules/ed25519
node-gyp rebuild

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
sh: node-gyp: command not found
npm ERR! Darwin 15.4.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "homebridge"
npm ERR! node v4.4.4
npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! curve25519@1.1.0 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 127
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the curve25519@1.1.0 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the curve25519 package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls curve25519
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/stubelshe/npm-debug.log

As I said, I’ve followed a number of instruction on these boards and others and had no progress, any ideas?

Thanks

[tannebil]

That’s the process I successfully followed.

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On May 27, 2016, at 3:13 PM, apwelsh [e-mail] wrote:

Don’t use homebrew to install nodejs. Go to HTTP://nodejs.org and download the pkg, and install it.

Then use the sudo npm -g homebridge command.

It will throw some security warnings that root does not have access to .node-gyp folders and then a follow-up that it is attempting reinstall using temp dev dir. Then it should work.

Make sure you have write access to /use/local/* folders. Because of rootless mode in OS X El Capitan, the root user no longer gets full access to everything.

Depending on your version of brew, it may be trying to do work in /usr instead of /usr/local

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