{"id":374,"hash":"77d0809e3e0bf7b078cd88633c240bd8f9645cceb134b2f1755904f1ee8c8f3f","pattern":"npm install permission denied (macOS)","full_message":"To install a Bootstrap theme I want to run npm install. However I always receive a permission denied error.\n\nI already tried nvm and then switched with nvm use 10.9.0 to run npm install.\n\nI also tried sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npmand sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/node_modules. Neither solved it and now I am bit out of ideas how I can continue. I use macOS High Sierra.\n\nMarcs-MBP-3:masterclass Marc$ npm install\nnpm WARN deprecated gulp-uglifyjs@0.6.2: Since gulp-sourcemaps now works, use gulp-uglify instead\nnpm WARN deprecated babel-preset-es2015@6.24.1: 🙌  Thanks for using Babel: we recommend using babel-preset-env now: please read babeljs.io/env to update! \nnpm WARN deprecated browserslist@1.7.7: Browserslist 2 could fail on reading Browserslist >3.0 config used in other tools.\nnpm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/node_modules\nnpm ERR! path /Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/node_modules\nnpm ERR! code EACCES\nnpm ERR! errno -13\nnpm ERR! syscall access\nnpm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/node_modules'\nnpm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/node_modules']\nnpm ERR!   stack:\nnpm ERR!    'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \\'/Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/node_modules\\'',\nnpm ERR!   errno: -13,\nnpm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',\nnpm ERR!   syscall: 'access',\nnpm ERR!   path: '/Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/node_modules' }\nnpm ERR! \nnpm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.\nnpm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user\nnpm ERR! \nnpm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the\nnpm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running\nnpm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).\n\nnpm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:\nnpm ERR!     /Users/Marc/.npm/_logs/2018-08-22T12_46_51_786Z-debug.log","ecosystem":"npm","package_name":"node.js","package_version":null,"solution":"Check permissions of your project root with ls -l /Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev/masterclass/. If the owner is not $USER, delete your node_modules directory, try changing the owner of that directory instead and run npm install again.\n\ncd /Users/Marc/Desktop/Dev\nrm -rf ./masterclass/node_mdoules/\nchown -R $USER ./masterclass/\ncd masterclass    \nnpm install","confidence":0.95,"source":"stackoverflow","source_url":"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51967335/npm-install-permission-denied-macos","votes":74,"created_at":"2026-04-19T04:51:03.655072+00:00","updated_at":"2026-04-19T04:51:03.655072+00:00"}