For future reference, this was caused by trying to install globally as root. Installation with a user account does not cause this error, but of course does not allow global installation.
Spencer On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 3:20:35 PM UTC-4, Spencer Ogden wrote: > > I am running `npm install -g jupyter-dashboards-server` and the issue is > when trying to install the dependency "phosphor-dragdrop". During that > packages install, it fails on `npm dedupe`. The specific error is: > > npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, open > '*/root/*.npm/_locks/staging-a072192f34a17023.lock.STALE' > > [snip] > npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/46203834-0468-4ee4-8930-49db04ce3aa0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
