Error: EPERM: operation not permitted

[stivweng]

Hello there.

I came here from wordpress. Been doing websites for years ONLY with wordpress. Im not really a programmer, and im not familiar with this npm stuff.

But this frontity looks interesting, decided to try it out.

I have already installed Node.js as requested. And I tried to create a project, it says something like this

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted

can you advice me on this matter.

[juanma]

Hi @stivweng,

Welcome to the Community Forum!

Can you please copy and paste the command you’re launching in the terminal along with the full error?
Can you also copy and paste the result of doing npx frontity info?

[stivweng]

Hello Juanma,

Thanks for replying to a newbie like me (LOL)

so here is the full error when i typed in the command npx frontity create my-app
Attached is screenshot

[stivweng]

and also says the same when i typed in the command npx frontity info,

[juanma]

@stivweng

It looks like an issue with your installation of NPM in your Windows OS

There is some more info here: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10826

Our best guess is that npm doesn’t have the write permission in some directory where it is trying to download the frontity package (which causes the EPERM error).

And subsequently npx cannot find the frontity package because it has not been downloaded (which causes the command not found: frontity )

[juanma]

@stivweng

here you have another thread in our Community Forum where you can find a solution for this issue

Error running npx

It seems like it is a problem of npx when the user folder contains an space (Saad Faris) It’s crazy that they haven’t solved it yet. You need to move the npm cache to a folder without spaces. First, open cmd as Administrator. Search for cmd Right click Choose “Run as Administraror” Enter your password [10] Then enter these commands in the console: > mklink /J "C:\Users\saad-faris" "C:\Users\Saad Faris" > npm config set cache C:\Users\saad-faris\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache > npm config s…

[stivweng]

hmm seems like none of it working for me

[mmczaplinski]

@stivweng Could you specify what exactly have you tried?

[stivweng]

well. first i did what i had to as requested in the requirements,

and then I proceed to start my first project, and it says error as mentioned above. I tried that npm cache too. but it didnt work.

Just wondering, does it have to do with windows firewall?

[mmczaplinski]

It’s possible but it’s really hard to say if it has anything to do with windows firewall without more context

This is why I’ve asked if you can share the specific steps that you’ve tried (what command did you type? what actions did you take, etc?) so that we could know what we could rule out.

The more information you can provide, the better we are able to help you

[Pablo]

Hello @stivweng did you try to run your project outside your C:\Users\Steve Wang folder? It really looks like the problem you were facing in your screenshot was related with the folder name
containing an space.

[stivweng]

Im so sorry,

Well after I installed node, i start with this command npx frontity create my-app
and the problem starts from there.

omg. i love this community already !

[stivweng]

Hello Pablo,

No I havent,

Should I give it a try?

Im sorry, Im a beginner, LOL, But I would love to try this Frontity.

[mmczaplinski]

Hey @stivweng, yep you should try it because we’re pretty sure that this is the problem Another user had the same issue before.

Check out the instructions in this thread: Error running npx