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Warning "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir

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For people coming here through search engines, see https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/454#issuecomment-315691803

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/home/travis/.node-gyp/0.10.28"

I’m filing this here because node-gyp is the only package that seems to throw this issue. My project depends on some modules which build with node-gyp, and I see this warning for every one of them during ‘npm install’. Does anyone have insight on what this warning means?

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:66 (14 by maintainers)

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168reactions

BaggersIOcommented, Oct 12, 2014

Solved it be adding --unsafe-perm.

In my case with sails:

sudo npm install --unsafe-perm --verbose -g sails

Works well!

24reactions

kulicuucommented, Jul 7, 2014

If I remember correctly, set unsafe-perm to true when running as sudo is a fix it’s obstructing.

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