Cannot create "/usr/local/bin/create-next-app" due to insufficient permissions.

[gas-limit]

I'm trying to use yarn create next-app but I run into the error

Cannot create /usr/local/bin/create-next-app due to insufficient permissions.

creating a next app requires me to use sudo create next-app

I can make the project and spin up next-js but modifying the package.json, node modules, yarn.lock etc. require root permissions. When this happens, I just type my password into the prompt every time. I then get an error when I try to use web3uikit It says the module isn't found.

./components/header.jsx:1:0 Module not found: Can't resolve 'web3uikit'
1 | import { ConnectButton } from "web3uikit";

So then I tried modifying the package.json and yarn.lock to the repo here. It doesn't really change anything.

I'm just assuming I'm getting this error because I start the project as root but I haven't made the project with the user I'm in.

I've also tried chown but it didn't change anything.

I'm just new to linux to bear with me
Thanks

[mattaereal]

Hi! At first glance you seem to be having issues with your local yarn/node installation.

It appears the default path for a local installation (or prefix) is not set properly, that's why it's complaining about permissions.

Will you please show me the output of the following command?
↪ cat ~/.npmrc

In advance, you can modify the contents of that file, to this
prefix=/home/<your_username>/.npm-packages

[gas-limit]

Hi sorry I'm really new to linux,

using cat ~/.npmrc gives me error:
cat: /home/josh/.npmrc: No such file or directory

[mattaereal]

No worries.

Just run this and try again the create command from the beginning:
echo "prefix=/home/josh/.npm-packages" > ~/.npmrc

More info on this

Note: never run anything from someone you don't trust or if you don't know exactly what it does.

[gas-limit]

that worked! thank you

[mattaereal]

No worries :)