Error: EACCES: permission denied doing bower install

Question

I do bower install css-circle-menu

and I got this error :

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/node_modules/configstore/index.js:54
                throw err;
                ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/Users/james/.config/configstore/bower-github.json'

Tried sudo bower install css-circle-menu, it doesn't work too. Also tried to install bower global again, got the same error.

Answer 1

The problem is caused by insufficient user permissions. You can avoid the issue invoking a sudo command but I suggest you to try to fixing your .config folder permissions using:

sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.config

Bower and NPM commands shouldn't be run with sudo.

Answer 2

试试这个： sudo bower install css-circle-menu --allow-root