EACCES Error with Bower install?

I've read a few answers on StackOverflow & some other sites but none seem to fix the issue I'm having.

I'm installing AppGyver Add-ons, via terminal. Getting the following error:

BradMacBookPro:SparksInSpain breadadams$ bower install https://##MY-DOWNLOAD-CODE##@addons.appgyver.com/steroids-addons.js?version=3.1.0 --save
bower not-cached    https://##MY-DOWNLOAD-CODE##@addons.appgyver.com/steroids-addons.js?version=3.1.0#*
bower resolve       https://##MY-DOWNLOAD-CODE##@addons.appgyver.com/steroids-addons.js?version=3.1.0#*
bower download      https://##MY-DOWNLOAD-CODE##@addons.appgyver.com/steroids-addons.js?version=3.1.0
bower EACCES        EACCES, mkdir '/Users/breadadams/.cache/bower/packages/7480e059b318750565b4b25c2556c9c4'

Stack trace:
Error: EACCES, mkdir '/Users/breadadams/.cache/bower/packages/7480e059b318750565b4b25c2556c9c4'

Console trace:
Trace
    at StandardRenderer.error (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/renderers/StandardRenderer.js:74:17)
    at Logger.updateNotifier.packageName (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/bin/bower:109:18)
    at Logger.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Logger.emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-logger/lib/Logger.js:29:39)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/commands/install.js:27:16
    at _rejected (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:808:24)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:834:30
    at Promise.when (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:1079:31)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:752:41)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:574:44

System info:
Bower version: 1.2.8
Node version: 0.10.25
OS: Darwin 13.1.0 x64

I'm not sudo, I've tried --allow-root, cleaned the bower cache, always get the same error on install. Some local permission problem?

Solution 1:

I had a similar issue that I couldn't resolve using these suggestions. I was successful when I ran Bower with root privileges, like so:

sudo bower install --allow-root

Solution 2:

Change the ownership for the .config and cache directory

sudo chown -R username:username ~/.config 

and

sudo chown -R username:username ~/.cache

Solution 3:

I noticed you tried this from a MacBook Pro.

You could try this:

• go to the finder
• under menu go Go To Folder type this: ~/.cache/bower
• delete its content and try again.

Also as @Edwin suggested you may try:

The command bower cache clean which will have the same effect irrespective of OS.

Solution 4:

Im not sure what happened with my project but in order to fix the issues with bower I had to run the following.

sudo npm install -g bower

sudo bower cache clean --allow-root 

rm -Rf bower_components

sudo bower install --allow-root

Im still not really sure what went wrong but after those commands i was up and running