error installing coffeescript on mac 10.7.2

Question

Node and npm are both installed and up to date but keep getting this error when trying to install coffeescript. I am still new to programming so any advice would be greatly

Answer 1

Following the advice of nmp author Isaac Z. Schlueter:

I strongly encourage you not to do package management with sudo!

Instead of sudo npm install ... you could instead change permissions on your /usr/local directory:

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

After doing this once, you should be able to npm install ... (without sudo).