Error accessing `/usr/local/share/man/man1` during install

[leesei]

I'm encounter this on Mint 15 and LDME.

$ npm install -g rfc
/home/leesei/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.1/bin/rfc -> /home/leesei/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.1/lib/node_modules/rfc/bin/rfc

> rfc@0.0.8 install /home/leesei/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.1/lib/node_modules/rfc
> make man

install rfc.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1
install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1’: Permission denied

A workaround is sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/share/man/.

[Joseph Werle]

Yeah you should have rights to that directory or use sudo

[leesei]

I think I encountered this issue 'cause I use nvm to avoid sudo-ing for
global packages.
How about adding sudo for the make target?
But that would break unattended installs and I doubt if it is a good
practice.

I'll try to look for any way to install manpage without sudo.

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Joseph Werle [e-mail]
wrote:

Yeah you should have rights to that directory or use sudo

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[leesei]

Update: I'm using nvm and found that the man page actually symlinked to ~/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.3/share/man/man1, which is in my $MANPATH.

I'm not sure how this works, just to share this finding for further investigation.

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EDIT: that manpage is installed beacuse https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#man
So we don't need make man actually.