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ah yeah, i'm sure the console filling up with eaccess errors is fine
hey
i think maybe
npm is not actually a good way to distribute software
given that installing this just caused it to loop forever with EACCES errors
running as root
not sudo
as root
@catoutofbed I’ve been saying this for years!! (actually I said it once a week ago or whatever)
@catoutofbed there’s a workaround: cd into the node_modules directory and do a `sudo npm install` there (no `-g`)
@catoutofbed then symlink as appropriate
@jordyd
that sounds
awful
@catoutofbed oh yes, welcome to the world of Node