udacimak: Installation fails on youtube-dl - Installation dependencies?

Hello,

I’m installing the most recent version of node an npm via these instructions: https://websiteforstudents.com/install-the-latest-node-js-and-nmp-packages-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04-lts/

When i run npm install -g udacimak I get the following error:

> youtube-dl@1.12.2 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/youtube-dl
> node ./scripts/download.js

/usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:90
                    throw err0;
                    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/youtube-dl/bin'
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:885:18)
    at Function.sync (/usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:71:13)
    at createBase (/usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/youtube-dl/lib/downloader.js:51:12)
    at downloader (/usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/youtube-dl/lib/downloader.js:64:5)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/udacimak/node_modules/youtube-dl/scripts/download.js:3:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:653:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! youtube-dl@1.12.2 postinstall: `node ./scripts/download.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the youtube-dl@1.12.2 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

I’m new to node and npm but know linux and other languages pretty well. I’m clearly missing something here.

Is there a specific way i need to install youtube-dl? I’m on ubuntu 16.04

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 19 (6 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Merge pull request #1 from Alameen688/chore/upgrade-udacity-api Fix failing commands by upgrading to latest Udacity API — committed to drbothen/udacimak by Alameen688 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Have you tried sudo npm i -g udacimak?

If that doesn’t work, try installing yarn and install via yarn instead and let me know if it works?

npm i -g yarn
# then
yarn global add udacimak

udacimak on Nov 26, 2018

This works for me. sudo npm install -g udacimak --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

adarshaU on Dec 26, 2018

I created a new 18.04 vm and started clean. I ran into the same issues with clean installations of node.js and npm.

I then found this page ‘https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions’

The procedure there allowed me to install but still throws an npm update error at the end. I can live with this.

faultfactory on Nov 4, 2018

Installation with npm works now:

$ npm list -g --depth=0 
/home/anks/.npm-global/lib
├── udacimak@1.4.0
└── youtube-dl@2.0.0

AnkS4 on Jul 14, 2019

Yes, agreed, I should have clarified. Udacimak is running and scraping content just fine.

faultfactory on Nov 4, 2018