isaacs/npm — Issue #1858: error installing coffee-script
Author: conradwt
Created: 2011-12-09 04:29:52+00:00
State: open

I have downloaded and install both nodes and npm. Now, when I attempt to install coffee-script, I getting the following message:

```
$ npm install coffee-script
npm ERR! Could not create /Users/conradwt/.npm/coffee-script/1.1.3/package.tgz
npm ERR! Failed creating the tarball.
npm ERR! couldn't pack /var/folders/r7/2szvgw615tl507ndcnb89x6w0000gn/T/npm-1323404357674/1323404357674-0.7902138701174408/contents/package to /Users/conradwt/.npm/coffee-script/1.1.3/package.tgz
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, permission denied '/Users/conradwt/.npm/coffee-script/1.1.3'
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Darwin 11.2.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/opt/local/bin/npm" "install" "coffee-script"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/conradwt/macports.dir/docs/txt
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.5
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.106
npm ERR! path /Users/conradwt/.npm/coffee-script/1.1.3
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/conradwt/macports.dir/docs/txt/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
```