EACCES Permission Denied: Problem installing corepack through yarn (Lesson 5: Ethers.js Simple Storage).

[jacobhay2626]

I am currently on 6:48:03 of Patricks videos and I am having a lot of trouble installing the corepack binary. After attempting to use the code:

npm i -g corepack

It gave an EACCES error along with ~10 lines of 'npm: err!' (apologies I don't have this error code anymore). To try and solve this, after having looked on other forums, I tried to manually change the npm's default directory by doing the following:

mkdir ~/.npm-global

npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'

export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH

after doing this I tried to use the same code:

npm i -g corepack

which gave this error:

npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=global` instead.

changed 1 package, and audited 2 packages in 495ms

found 0 vulnerabilities

Hopefully this makes sense and I have included enough information, apologies for not having the original error but if anyone could help that would be great. If it helps, I am on Mac OS

[alymurtazamemon]

@jacobhay2626 did you try sudo npm install --global yarn

[alymurtazamemon]

@jacobhay2626 if Node.js >=16.10 then run corepack enable, else run sudo npm i -g corepack.

Corepack is included by default with all Node.js installs after >=16.10

[alymurtazamemon]

@jacobhay2626 see you later, hope it will help.

[jacobhay2626]

No worries, my node version is v16.15.1. Coincidently just found someone on stack exchange recommending downloading an earlier version as this seems to be a reported issue associated with NPM, just concerned this might lead to changes meaning I won't be able to follow the course as effectively

[jacobhay2626]

cheers for your help!

[jacobhay2626]

** stack overflow

[jacobhay2626]

Incase anyone else ever comes across this issue I thought I would give a description of how I solved it. I found that when trying to do

corepack enable 

I would get an EACCES permission denied error appear, and when I tried:

npm i -g corepack

I would get the error seen in my question above. I think i was getting this second error because I was using a node version above 16.10 but Im not sure about that, however for the EACCES permission denied I was able to follow the steps on this link

https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally

to get around the issue. If you are anything like I am at the time I am writing this I have linked a video on how to create that ~/.profile file and then you can just follow the steps as seen. I'd highly recommend following these steps especially if you are on a Mac OS system as this seems to be a very common issue (there are thousands of questions like this but a lot of the answers require coding that was above my ability level and I think this is the most simple solution you will find).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxpmrLgSGJ8

Hopefully this reaches the right person at some point :)

[jacobhay2626]

Not sure what difference that will make (if any) but might be worth a go

[Trevor-V]

For anyone else who hates the terminal and was still stuck like me after these steps. Make sure you run

npm i -g corepack

This needs to be done first before corepack enable and it should work.

[tbullcto]

@jacobhay2626

Thanks for all the insight! After a couple of days of messing with the terminal and permissions, I finally got yarn to work on VSC.

A couple of websites that helped with my situation:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51967335/npm-install-permission-denied-macos

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64048830/yarn-2-init-add-failing

For anyone else who might have problems, it is on MacOS, so keep that in mind as well.

Wrapping up Lesson 5 and onto Lesson 6!

[anasimov]

Issue Seemed to be resolved with administative rights and was resolved with sudo: sudo corepack enable. Thanks For Help

[ThisisOat]

@parkjohn25 i had the same problem as you but did the: sudo corepack enable command that @anasimov says above and ran yarn --version after and all was well.