Install error

[sridwan]

ubuntu 14.04
node v0.12.2 (compile from source)
npm v2.7.4

when installing node-sass locally npm install node-sass, got this error:

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> [email protected] install /root/sandbox/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

module.js:338
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module '/root/sandbox/node_modules/node-sass/scripts/install.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3
npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-49-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "node-sass"
npm ERR! node v0.12.2
npm ERR! npm  v2.7.4
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node scripts/install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node scripts/install.js'.

Tried [email protected], same error.

But when install globally npm install -g node-sass install successful.

It will be helpful if can install locally per project.
Any help / hints would be very appreciated.

[saper]

Is npm install node-sass@beta any better? (without 2.0.0)

[sridwan]

npm install node-sass@beta

Yes the error is exactly the same

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node scripts/install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node scripts/install.js'.

[saper]

Can you post a whole log including your command to gist.github.org? use script if you can
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[sridwan]

https://gist.github.com/sridwan/076b57741481d219b94b

I've upload npm-debug.log for both npm install node-sass and npm install node-sass@beta

[saper]

Can you try: npm install --unsafe-perm node-sass@beta

or try as usual but not as root?

[sridwan]

Yes, it installs succesfully.

[saper]

So I think you have a normal behaviour of npm - it refuses to run scripts as root unless you tell it --unsafe-perm or configure it in .npmrc. -g works because it's difficult to do this on a typical system without being root.

I think we can close this because it is not specific to node-sass at all.