angular-cli: cli won't install on ubuntu 16.04 without installing node-gyp manually

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Versions.

$ ng -v; node -v; npm -v
    _                      _                 ____ _     ___
   / \   _ __   __ _ _   _| | __ _ _ __     / ___| |   |_ _|
  / △ \ | '_ \ / _` | | | | |/ _` | '__|   | |   | |    | |
 / ___ \| | | | (_| | |_| | | (_| | |      | |___| |___ | |
/_/   \_\_| |_|\__, |\__,_|_|\__,_|_|       \____|_____|___|
               |___/
@angular/cli: 1.1.2
node: 8.1.2
os: linux x64
v8.1.2
5.0.3

Repro steps.

install ubuntu 16.04
install nodejs (using apt) sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
install @angular/cli sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

The log given by the failure.

@angular/cli refuses to install, saying root user is not allowed to write into /usr/lib/node_modules/… The install process retries endlessly.

Desired functionality.

@angular/cli to check if node-gyp is installed an either fail saying requirement missing or install it by itself

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A fix for the issue, is manually installing node-gyp prior to installing @angular/cli

$ sudo npm install -g node-gyp
$ sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 41
Comments: 23 (1 by maintainers)

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Confirm, the sudo npm install -g @angular/cli produces an infinite installation loop under Ubuntu with default access permissions under /usr/lib/node_modules.

UniK on Aug 2, 2017

On my Ubuntu it worked fine by first installing node-gyp. On another machine with Debian8 all solutions listed here failed, the only one which worked in this case was sudo npm install --unsafe-perm -g @angular/cli

Valerski-Emilija on Nov 19, 2017

I did that: $ sudo rm -Rf @angular/ node-gyp $ sudo npm install -g node-gyp /usr/bin/node-gyp -> /usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js

node-gyp@3.6.2 added 102 packages in 2.298s Then open a new terminal and sudo npm install -g @angular/cli Got AGAIN the LOOP Mayhem problem the retry and got a success… sudo npm install -g @angular/cli /usr/bin/ng -> /usr/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.2 (node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.2: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”})
@angular/cli @1.4.9 updated 2 packages in 50.573s

more information node -v v8.7.0 npm -v 5.4.2

devsparkles on Oct 23, 2017

now i was able to use ng commands . i just removed node,npm and nvm .everything is running well now .

vamshi9666 on Mar 21, 2018

@rotemfogel you should not be installing npm packages using sudo. https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions

nikoTM on Jun 19, 2017

Had similar infinite loop while installing @angular/cli in docker environment (using FROM node:8.11.1 ). The only solution that worked for me was using the --unsafe-perm switch while installing angular cli.

alkeicam on Apr 11, 2018

Same issue on ubuntu 17.04. Installing @angular/cli through npm makes it go into an infinite loop giving an EACCESS error saying user “root” doesn’t have enough permissions to access the dev dir “/usr/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-sass/.node-gyp/8.9.1” and then it tries reinstalling from the temporary dev directory and this goes on forever…

BK1603 on Dec 20, 2017