Question

Not able to install truffle-contract

I am trying to install truffle-contract using the following command:

npm install truffle-contract

But I am getting the following error:

npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone -q https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js.git /home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-777489e7 npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-777489e7/.git: Permission denied npm ERR!

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/.npm/_logs/2017-12-26T05_11_27_119Z-debug.log

Comments

Did you solve this problem ?

Thank you!

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The below mentioned solution worked for me. Are you getting the same error?

Answer 1

There’s a permission error. Run this command as sudo. It should work

sudo npm install truffle-contract

Comments

Tried it. Didn’t work with sudo

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Okay. Try this:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ update the nvm
$ update npm
$ update node
$ sudo npm install truffle-contract