Post installation issue

[ricardo-vallejo]

Hello

I'm trying to install Taiko, but I'm getting this error

sudo TAIKO_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true npm install -g taiko
                                        
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
/usr/bin/taiko -> /usr/lib/node_modules/taiko/bin/taiko.js

> [email protected] install /usr/lib/node_modules/taiko
> node lib/install.js

Skipping Chromium Download as given in environment variable.

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/taiko
> node lib/documentation.js

node:fs:495
  handleErrorFromBinding(ctx);
  ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'lib/api.json'
    at Object.openSync (node:fs:495:3)
    at Object.writeFileSync (node:fs:1519:35)
    at /usr/lib/node_modules/taiko/lib/documentation.js:10:10 {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: 'lib/api.json'
}
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.3.1 (node_modules/taiko/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node lib/documentation.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-01-19T21_23_29_027Z-debug.log

[zabil]

Please try installing taiko as a non root user. You will run into several issue related to permissions when you install taiko as a root user.
If you still want go ahead please read https://docs.taiko.dev/installing/#installing-as-root-user

[ricardo-vallejo]

Hi @zabil, I ran this command to skip the documentation. Should I uninstall and run without root or it's fine.
sudo TAIKO_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true TAIKO_SKIP_DOCUMENTATION=true npm install -g taiko

[zabil]

Yes, Ideally you should uninstall and re-rerun without root. Please also make sure your environment is set up in a way that does not require installing node modules as root.

[ricardo-vallejo]

Hello @zabil
It didn't work without the sudo command. The solution that I used was sudo npm install -g taiko --unsafe-perm --allow-root