On npm install: Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied

Question

I have managed to corrupt my npm install, and whenever I try to install packages using npm install, I receive error messages along these lines:

Answer 1

Above answer didn't work for me. Just try to run your command with --unsafe-perm.

e.g

npm install -g node@latest --unsafe-perm

This seems to solve the problem.