title: Error: EACCES: permission denied
body: <p>I run <em>npm install lodash</em> but it throws <strong>Error: EACCES: permission denied</strong> error. I know it is permission issue but as far as I know, sudo permission is not required for installing node module locally. If I run it with sudo, it gets installed inside ~/node_modules folder. <strong>drwxrwxr-x</strong> is the file permission of existing folder. I can't figure out what might have gone wrong.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the error message.</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error /home/rupesh/.npm/lodash/4.13.1/package.tgz
  npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-88-generic
  npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "lodash"
  npm ERR! node v4.3.1
  npm ERR! npm  v2.14.12
  npm ERR! path /home/rupesh/node_modules/lodash
  npm ERR! code EACCES
  npm ERR! errno -13
  npm ERR! syscall mkdir
  
  npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/rupesh/node_modules/lodash'
  npm ERR!     at Error (native)
  npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/rupesh/node_modules/lodash']
  npm ERR!   errno: -13,
  npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
  npm ERR!   syscall: 'mkdir',
  npm ERR!   path: '/home/rupesh/node_modules/lodash',
  npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
  npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/home/rupesh/node_modules/lodash',
  npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
  npm ERR!   fstream_stack: 
  npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:35:25',
  npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:47:53',
  npm ERR!      'FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)' ] }
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
  
  npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
  npm ERR!     /home/rupesh/Desktop/es6/npm-debug.log
  </code></pre>