Lesson 6: EACCES: permission denied.

[Tokuda17]

Hello,

When trying to rename my greeter.sol file I get an error: EACCES: permission denied.
I also get an error when I try to delete the file: EACCES: permission denied, unlink.

Does anyone know how I should solve this?

[krakxn]

Quoting two solutions from StackOverflow:

• sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

• Creating package.json using npm init solved my issue.

[Tokuda17]

Thank you, This solution worked!

[krakxn]

Awesome! I would recommend changing the title to something like "Lesson 6: EACCES: permission denied" (as that is more apt for reference) and closing the discussion for others facing the same issue in the future. Cheers!

[alymurtazamemon]

@Tokuda17 Make sure the user account you are using for your computer has Administrative access. I think you are using windows, so type on google for this and you will find a ton of solutions.

[krakxn]

For context to @ali-thegilfoyle 's solution: if it is a local environment (on Windows), the way to give admin access is to just "run as an administrator" by right clicking on it.