SOLVED Pipeline Build Node JS fails with "permission denied, mkdir '/root/.npm'"

[Peter Kowalczyk]

Doing a pipeline build with Node (image: node:10.15.3). First script command is to install a global dependency. That fails when installing one of the sub dependencies and I'm dead in the water. Apparently it cannot access root folder. I'm not a Linux pro, just enough to be dangerous, so I'm scratching my head at this noise. Any thoughts or suggestions?

> sharp@0.22.1 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gridsome/node_modules/sharp
> (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)
ERR! sharp EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/.npm'

[Peter Kowalczyk · Accepted solution]

Solved. I was a dumbass and was installing the wrong thing.

[Tom Somerville]

Hey @Peter Kowalczyk I am having the same issue and I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong, can you elaborate a bit more and what you were installing and what you are installing now?

[Kostya Kostyushko]

Same here, facing the same issue. Any solution for it?
Thanks

[James Nuanez]

The best way I found to install NPM packages globally with Bitbucket Pipelines was to set the user to root:

script:
- npm -g config set user root
- npm install -g packagename

 Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54290720/8742362