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Error: Cannot find module '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.16.3/lib/node_modules/serverless/scripts/postinstall.js'

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Hi I am trying to upgrade the serverless version by running npm install serverless -g and I got error. npm -v = 6.13.1 node -v = v10.16.3

serverless@1.58.0 postinstall /root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.16.3/lib/node_modules/serverless node ./scripts/postinstall.js

module.js:549 throw err; ^

Error: Cannot find module ‘/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.16.3/lib/node_modules/serverless/scripts/postinstall.js’ at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10) at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16) at bootstrap_node.js:609:3 npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.1.2 (node_modules/serverless/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! serverless@1.58.0 postinstall: node ./scripts/postinstall.js npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the serverless@1.58.0 postinstall 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! /root/.npm/_logs/2019-11-21T01_20_07_129Z-debug.log

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Dirvanncommented, Sep 14, 2020

it looks like it is working after I run the installation using sudo. Thank you for the responses and help.

Even when I was logged in as root I had to use sudo, then it worked.

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jastsaicommented, Nov 23, 2019

it looks like it is working after I run the installation using sudo. Thank you for the responses and help.

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