Install error (EACCESS) with OpenZeppelin SDK 2.6

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Hi @pkr,

Sorry to hear that you are having issues installing OpenZeppelin SDK 2.6.

@gitpusha had similar issues and they were able to resolve by using nvm which is one of the recommended solutions in the npm documentation.
I suggest looking at the following reply:

Cannot npm install -g @openzeppelin/cli@2.6 on macOS Catalina 10.15.1

Hi @gitpusha, Sorry to hear that you are running into permission issues when installing. Using sudo with npm is highly discouraged, so I recommend resolving the permission issues, either with a node version manager or change npm’s default directory: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-sdk/blob/master/README.md If you get an EACCESS permission denied error while installing, please refer to the npm documentation on global installs permission errors. Alternatively, you may run sudo…

Alternatively, instead of installing globally, you could install locally and then run via npx.

Installing packages locally rather than globally (npx)

I used to install packages globally (npm i -g truffle anyone?) but have now moved to installing locally as I often need different versions between projects. I recently came across npx (I am new to the JavaScript world, sorry if this is really old news). npx is a npm package runner which is installed along with npm. This allows me to run local packages easily and even run packages I haven’t installed. I also did a check of what I had installed globally. npm list -g --depth 0 I then uninsta…

I hope this helps. Let me know how you get on.