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

I had the same issue but nothing above worked for me. If you recently updated Xcode and don't recognize, don't forget to agree the terms and install the command line tools!

xcode-select --install

Answer 2

Like everyone says, bower and npm shouldn't be run with sudo. This corrected the problem for me on my OSX machine.

sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.npm
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.config

Now you should be able to run:

npm install
npm start 

and even

bower install

without having to use sudo.

*note npm start usually calls bower install