In my current project, I am following a tutorial on AngularJS from the book titled "Unraveling AngularJS 1.5 (With Over 130 Complete Samples" by István Novák, which stipulates the need for installation of Node.js. The appendix of this book provides command line instructions for installing various packages related to Node.js using NPM, with one of them being live-server. Following the given commands:
npm init -y
npm install angular@^1.5.0 --save
npm install angular-messages@^1.5.0 --save
npm install <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0b6a656c7e676a792679647e7f6a2539">[email protected]</a> --save
npm install bootstrap --save
npm install jquery --save
npm install live-server --save-dev
All the installations went smoothly except for the live-server package. Attempting to install it led to several error messages as shown in the npm-debug.log file:
335 warn <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__"" data-cfemail="df8ab1adbea9bab3b6b1b89eb1b8aab3beadeef1ea9feef1eff1ef">[email protected]</a> No repository field.
336 verbose stack Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '../mime/cli.js' -> '/media/usb/AngularJS Test/Samples/node_modules/.bin/mime'
336 verbose stack at Error (native)
337 verbose cwd /media/usb/AngularJS Test/Samples
338 error Linux 4.4.0-31-generic
339 error argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "live-server" "--save-dev"
340 error node v4.4.7
341 error npm v3.10.5
342 error path ../mime/cli.js
343 error code EPERM
344 error errno -1
345 error syscall symlink
346 error Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '../mime/cli.js' -> '/media/usb/AngularJS Test/Samples/node_modules/.bin/mime'
346 error at Error (native)
346 error { [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '../mime/cli.js' -> '/media/usb/AngularJS Test/Samples/node_modules/.bin/mime']
346 error errno: -1,
346 error code: 'EPERM',
346 error syscall: 'symlink',
346 error path: '../mime/cli.js',
346 error dest: '/media/usb/AngularJS Test/Samples/node_modules/.bin/mime',
346 error parent: 'UnravelingAngular1.5' }
347 error Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
348 verbose exit [ -1, true ]
The last line advises trying the command as root/admin, however, even when attempting this on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as the root user, the same issue persists with the symlink error. This problem seems to be specifically related to symlinks, an area that I am not familiar with. Interestingly, all other components installed via NPM were successful without any issues.
If anyone has encountered and resolved the symlink predicament mentioned above, could you please share your insights?