EACCES Error with Bower install?

Question

I\'ve read a few answers on StackOverflow & some other sites but none seem to fix the issue I\'m having.

I\'m installing AppGyver Add-ons, via terminal. Getting

Answer 1

Im not sure what happened with my project but in order to fix the issues with bower I had to run the following.

sudo npm install -g bower

sudo bower cache clean --allow-root 

rm -Rf bower_components

sudo bower install --allow-root

Im still not really sure what went wrong but after those commands i was up and running

Answer 2

I had a similar issue that I couldn't resolve using these suggestions. I was successful when I ran Bower with root privileges, like so:

sudo bower install --allow-root

Answer 3

I hit the same thing and noticed that the bower_components folder was owned by the root user. I changed ownership to my user and everything worked without having to run bower as root.

sudo chown -R $USER bower_components

Answer 4

1) run

$groups

to get the name of your group

2) then run

$sudo chown -R {user}:{group} ~/.config 
$sudo chown -R {user}:{group} ~/.cache

where {user} - is username and {group} - is group name

Answer 5

Change the ownership for the .config and cache directory

sudo chown -R username:username ~/.config 

and

sudo chown -R username:username ~/.cache

Answer 6

I noticed you tried this from a MacBook Pro.

You could try this:

• go to the finder
• under menu go Go To Folder type this: ~/.cache/bower
• delete its content and try again.

Also as @Edwin suggested you may try:

The command bower cache clean which will have the same effect irrespective of OS.