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Bug: Installation of Pizza cli on wsl
Describe the bug
Window 11System settings Ubuntu on wsl
during installation npm i -g pizza was given this error.
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR! [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'] {
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'mkdir',
npm ERR! path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
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! /home/user/.npm/_logs/2025-03-06T22_22_35_600Z-debug-0.log
I had to use a sudo on the command npm i -g pizza to finally have it installed on my local machine.
It is necessary to use sudo?
This is the output of the pizza version
Version: dev
Sha: HEAD
Built at: dev
Steps to reproduce
run npm i -g pizza on wsl ubuntu to install pizza cli
Yes, in your specific scenario, it was necessary to use sudo to install pizza globally because you were trying to install it into a system-protected directory (/usr/local/lib/node_modules).
When you use sudo, you are temporarily elevating your privileges to those of the root user, which has full read and write access to all files and directories on the system. This allows npm to create the necessary directories and files within /usr/local/lib/node_modules.
