“Please try running this command again as Root/Administrator” error when trying to install LESS

Question

I\'m trying to install LESS on my machine and have installed node already. However, when I enter \"node install -g less\" I get the following error and am not sure what to d

Answer 1

npm has an official page about fixing npm permissions when you get the EACCES (Error: Access) error. The page even has a video.

You can fix this problem using one of two options:

1. Change the permission to npm's default directory.
2. Change npm's default directory to another directory.