Problem installing Zowe CLI on fedora gnome

[Caseybu]

I can not get zowe cli to install
[root@fedora sdr]# npm install -g prebuild-install
/usr/local/bin/prebuild-install -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/prebuild-install/bin.js

• [email protected]
  updated 1 package in 8.024s
  [root@fedora sdr]# npm install -g @zowe/cli@zowe-v2-lts

@zowe/[email protected] preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@zowe/cli
node ./scripts/preinstall

internal/fs/utils.js:332
throw err;
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '.prebuild-installrc'
at Object.openSync (fs.js:497:3)
at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1528:35)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@zowe/cli/scripts/preinstall.js:17:8)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:76:12)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47 {
errno: -13,
syscall: 'open',
code: 'EACCES',
path: '.prebuild-installrc'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @zowe/[email protected] preinstall: node ./scripts/preinstall
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @zowe/[email protected] preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2022-12-14T17_02_13_112Z-debug.log

[t1m0thyj]

Hello @Caseybu, this issue is related to root permissions being required to create files in the directory where npm installs global packages.

It may help to change to a different directory with more lax permissions - see npm docs for how to do this. There is also a sample script in the CLI repo that may be helpful to show how to change the "npm prefix" (directory where global packages are installed).

An alternative option may be to add the flag --unsafe-perm=true on your npm install command, if you are ok with allowing install scripts to run with root privileges.