LESSON 5: Installing Yarn

[SandyTampaBay]

trying to install yarn in node.js. I typed in "corepack enable" and got the following error.

"Internal Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> '/usr/local/bin/pnpm'
Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> '/usr/local/bin/pnpm'"

i type in "corepack --version" and get "0.12.1" as a response so i believe i have it installed if that helps. Also saw someone in another chat suggest "to try sudo" and a response with that "it worked" but I don't know what that means.

any help on this would be appreciated.

[othaime-en]

You are getting the error because you are trying to install/run the command with an account that has low administrative priviledges. The sudo command they are talking about makes you run the commands with administrative priviledges. However, it is not recommended to run just any command especially installations with this command it is a security risk and it should be a last minute resort.

[othaime-en]

Try the admin password or normal password you use for your machine.

[SandyTampaBay]

Awesome. that worked. thank you

[othaime-en]

Yay! Glad it worked out for you.

[pharrell04]

Hello I've made it to the password part as well, but it does not allow me to type a password or anything for that matter.

[othaime-en]

Hey what do you mean it doesn't allow you to type the password? Do you mean the password doesn't appear as you type? because if so, that is normal. In most cases, typing a password in the terminal doesn't show anything for security reasons. However, the password is still being entered. So just type your password correctly and hit enter.

[krakxn]

No need to go through such a hassle, just do npm install --global yarn

[SandyTampaBay]

I received the following when i put that in.

npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn'
npm ERR! [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn'] {
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'mkdir',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn'
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! /Users/michaelsandora/.npm/_logs/2022-09-14T20_34_47_573Z-debug-0.log

[krakxn]

@SandyTampaBay Open cmd as an administrator, then running npm install --global yarn will work and will install yarn globally.

If the above does not resolve the problem, referring to this StackOverflow discussion will definitely fix it.