gatsby: Error: EACCES: permission denied - Creating new gatsby app in WSL (Ubuntu 18.04)

Description

Hi, after installing gatsby globally in my WSL terminal i’m receiving the below error when running gatsby new blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-hello-world

Steps to reproduce

1.Install WSL Ubuntu 18.04 2.Curl install npm 3.Install gatsby with npm install -g gatsby-cli 4.New gatsby app with gatsby new blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-hello-world

Expected result

Create a new app without an errors

Actual result

Logs below

gareth@DESKTOP-5ANEVFU:~/blog-website/services$ gatsby new blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-hello-world
info Creating new site from git: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-hello-world.git
Cloning into 'blog'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 16, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (16/16), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
remote: Total 16 (delta 0), reused 9 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (16/16), done.
success Created starter directory layout
info Installing packages...
✔ Which package manager would you like to use ? › npm
info Preferred package manager set to "npm"
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! path /home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime
npm ERR! dest /home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime' -> '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE'
npm ERR!  [OperationalError: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime' -> '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE'] {
npm ERR!   cause: [Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime' -> '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE'] {
npm ERR!     errno: -13,
npm ERR!     code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!     syscall: 'rename',
npm ERR!     path: '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime',
npm ERR!     dest: '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE'
npm ERR!   },
npm ERR!   stack: "Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime' -> '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE'",
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'rename',
npm ERR!   path: '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/babel-runtime',
npm ERR!   dest: '/home/gareth/blog-website/services/blog/node_modules/.babel-runtime.DELETE',
npm ERR!   parent: 'blog'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/gareth/.npm/_logs/2020-03-01T11_19_51_193Z-debug.log

 ERROR 

Command failed with exit code 243: npm install



  Error: Command failed with exit code 243: npm install
  
  - error.js:56 makeError
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/[execa]/lib/error.js:56:11
  
  - index.js:114 handlePromise
    [lib]/[gatsby-cli]/[execa]/index.js:114:26
  
  - task_queues.js:97 processTicksAndRejections
    internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5

Environment

  System:
    OS: Linux 4.4 Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
    CPU: (16) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
    Shell: 4.4.20 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 13.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v13.9.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.0 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.13.7 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v13.9.0/bin/npm
  Languages:
    Python: 2.7.17 - /usr/bin/python
  npmGlobalPackages:
    gatsby-cli: 2.9.0