Issue installing ionic on Mac

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
1

I’m starting developing my first app, and can’t installa ionic, i get errors

I tried installing node 6.x and 7.x

this is the output i get

$ sudo npm install -g ionic
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.3.3: Use uuid module instead
/usr/local/bin/ionic → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/bin/ionic

fsevents@1.1.1 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/fsevents
node install

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
path.js:1142
cwd = process.cwd();
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, uv_cwd
at Object.resolve (path.js:1142:25)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:126:32)
at bootstrap_node.js:542:3
/usr/local/lib

[ CUT the three output ]

npm WARN In ionic@2.2.1 replacing bundled version of cross-spawn with cross-spawn@4.0.2
npm WARN In ionic@2.2.1 replacing bundled version of semver with semver@4.2.0
npm WARN In ionic@2.2.1 replacing bundled version of mime-types with mime-types@2.0.14
npm WARN In ionic@2.2.1 replacing bundled version of form-data with form-data@0.2.0
npm WARN In ionic@2.2.1 replacing bundled version of request with request@2.51.0
npm WARN In ionic@2.2.1 replacing bundled version of ionic-app-lib with ionic-app-lib@2.2.0
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.1 (node_modules/ionic/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.1 install: node install
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

2

I reply at my topic, it seems that on newer os x it need to be installed this way

sudo npm install --global –unsafe-perm ionic

3

I’m just going to keep tilting at this windmill. I see absolutely no benefit in running npm as root. Use nvm instead.

5

I restarted and installed NVM and node with

nvm install --lts

on NVM page it says

Note: On OS X, if you have/had a “system” node installed and want to install modules globally, keep in mind that:

When using nvm you do not need sudo to globally install a module with npm -g, so instead of doing sudo npm install -g grunt, do instead npm install -g grunt

now to install ionic, i use this command

npm install -g ionic

NOT

nvm install -g ionic

is correct?

6

Correct. The only time you’ll interact with nvm is installing new versions of node itself and switching between installed versions (IOW, very rarely compared to how much you interact with npm).

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