# Cannot install ionic & cordova

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cannot-install-ionic-cordova/144918>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [October 18, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cannot-install-ionic-cordova/144918 "2018-10-18T15:40:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![idaliramo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cab0a1/32.png) [@idaliramo](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/idaliramo)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cannot-install-ionic-cordova/144918/1 "2018-10-18T15:40:08Z")

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hey everyone, i get this cli errors when i try to install ionic and cordova , someone can help to resolve that ?

npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /Users/ll/.npm-global/lib/node\_modules/ionic  
npm ERR! path /Users/ll/.npm-global/lib/node\_modules/ionic  
npm ERR! code EACCES  
npm ERR! errno -13  
npm ERR! syscall access  
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/Users/ll/.npm-global/lib/node\_modules/ionic’  
npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/Users/ll/.npm-global/lib/node\_modules/ionic’  
npm ERR! stack: ‘Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/Users/ll/.npm-global/lib/node\_modules/ionic’’,  
npm ERR! errno: -13,  
npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’,  
npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’,  
npm ERR! path: ‘/Users/ll/.npm-global/lib/node\_modules/ionic’ }  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.  
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the  
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running  
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:  
npm ERR! /Users/ll/.npm/\_logs/2018-10-18T15\_36\_33\_660Z-debug.log

Thanks

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cannot-install-ionic-cordova/144918/2 "2021-07-19T21:12:37Z")

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Closed on July 19, 2021, 9:12pm UTC