Error: EACCES: permission denied

Question

I run npm install lodash but it throws Error: EACCES: permission denied error. I know it is permission issue but as far as I know, sudo permission

Answer 1

A related issue:

Wasted 3 hours spanning several days.

On a AWS EC2 machine, below worked:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/ubuntu/.cache
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/ubuntu/.config
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/ubuntu/.local
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/ubuntu/.npm
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/ubuntu/.pm2

Hope that helps.