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I know it must have been answered somewhere but I cannot find it.

I want to install Grunt in a project directory, on my computer, on a virtual volume (I am in dual boot with Windows, and the directory I am working on is on a third volume, not the Windows one).

When I try to install it there it constantly return errors and I cannot use Grunt, even though I am using sudo. It still returns :

npm ERR! code EPERM
(... plenty of other lines of npm ERR! ...))
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

Now when I try to do it with the same project but after having copied it in my /home/username volume-directory, then it works fine.

What should I do ?

Thanks!

raphael
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  • /home is a linux location. If you are trying to install Linux software on a windows volume what do you expect to happen when you do that?! Won't work. Ever. – Rinzwind Feb 28 '18 at 10:49
  • Hi Rinzwind. Thank you for your time. I guess I was not clear enough. I am working in a third volume, not the Windows one, just a volume where I save my documents. – raphael Feb 28 '18 at 10:55
  • and that volume is in ext3 or ext4? – Rinzwind Feb 28 '18 at 10:57
  • It's on 'FAT32'. Or at least it says when I look at it with Disks. Now if I right-click and check with the Files properties, it says: 'Filesystem type: msdos' (?!) (I am really new to Linux, so perdon my lack of knowledge ;) ) – raphael Feb 28 '18 at 11:14
  • Then see my first comment. You can not install linux software and use it from a windows filesystem. You can only do that if you convince Microsoft to support posix/linux. – Rinzwind Feb 28 '18 at 12:06
  • Okay, thank you Rinzwind. I thought you were talking about the partition where the Windows OS is installed. – raphael Feb 28 '18 at 12:51

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