[BUG] <EACCES permissions errors when installing packages, npm is trying to use /.npm as its cache directory, which typically requires root permission > about cli HOT 4 CLOSED

@kavana-14 npm will have appropriate access if it got installed correctly. If you want to change location of cache you can use --cache flag in your command to specify different location for caching. Checkout https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/using-npm/config#cache

also from error log you can try changing permission of that directory to fix.

npm ERR! Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in
npm ERR! previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! To permanently fix this problem, please run:
npm ERR! sudo chown -R 1007390000:0 "/.npm"

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@milaninfy I tried to fix the issue from the error logs, included that command inside the Dockerfile, but got the issue as below,

Step 11/14 : RUN chown -R 1007390000:0 "/.npm"
---> Running in 6dbe5b2a8315

chown: cannot access '/.npm': No such file or directory
The command '/bin/sh -c chown -R 1007390000:0 "/.npm"' returned a non-zero code: 1

I logged into the container shell and check the existence of /.npm directory

$ ls -l /.npm
ls: cannot access '/.npm': No such file or directory
$
$ ls -l ~/.npm
ls: cannot access '//.npm': No such file or directory

> oc rsh client-56975c6c4-x454j
$ npm config get cache
/.npm

I think /.npm reside inside the cache directory

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@kavana-14 What happens when you set cache to different location does it work for you ?,
npm config set cache ./another/location or you can specify the cache in .npmrc.

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@milaninfy, thank you, setting the cache to different location solved my issue, but the problem is with my browser. I can be able to expose the service and see the web page in my chrome but not possible in Internet Explorer.

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