cannot create mongo_hacker.js: Permission denied

on Debian 8, Node v8.4.0, Npm v 5.3.0

run by root…

# npm install -g mongo-hacker

> mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install /usr/lib/node_modules/mongo-hacker
> make install

cat config.js base.js hacks/color.js hacks/common.js hacks/aggregation.js hacks/old_aggregation.js hacks/uuid.js hacks/find_and_modify.js hacks/prompt.js hacks/auto_complete.js hacks/dbref.js hacks/helpers.js hacks/cmd_search.js hacks/show.js hacks/ps.js hacks/verbose.js hacks/randomise.js hacks/api.js hacks/index_paranoia.js hacks/sh_status.js hacks/count.js > mongo_hacker.js
/bin/sh: 1: cannot create mongo_hacker.js: Permission denied
Makefile:10: recipe for target 'mongo_hacker.js' failed
make: *** [mongo_hacker.js] Error 2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install: `make install`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the mongo-hacker@0.0.15 install 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/2017-09-05T18_09_50_908Z-debug.log

[jwerre]

This worked for me:

$ sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/lib/node_modules
$ npm install -g mongo-hacker
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/node_modules

[adamelliotfields]

sudo npm install --global --unsafe-perm mongo-hacker

Post-install scripts are normally prohibited by root (for good reason); the --unsafe-perm flag allows these scripts to run.

If you can, use NVM instead of installing Node directly, as NVM will let you run npm install --global without sudo.

On my Mac with NVM, npm install --global mongo-hacker works fine 👍