Not able to install Solidity in Ubuntu

Question

I am trying to install solidity on my system (Ubuntu 16). I am running the following command:

sudo npm install -g solc​

I am getting this error:

/usr/local/bin/solcjs -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/solc/solcjs


> keccak@1.4.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/solc/node_modules/keccak

> npm run rebuild || echo "Keccak bindings compilation fail. Pure JS implementation will be used."



> keccak@1.4.0 rebuild /usr/local/lib/node_modules/solc/node_modules/keccak

> node-gyp rebuild


gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/home/user/.node-gyp/8.10.0"

gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/solc/node_modules/keccak/.node-gyp"

gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install

gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install

gyp ERR! configure error

gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/solc/node_modules/keccak/.node-gyp'

gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-42-generic

gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"

gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/solc/node_modules/keccak

gyp ERR! node -v v8.10.0

gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0

gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno 1

npm ERR! keccak@1.4.0 rebuild: `node-gyp rebuild`

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Failed at the keccak@1.4.0 rebuild script.

npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

Keccak bindings compilation fail. Pure JS implementation will be used.

+ solc@0.5.1

added 76 packages from 30 contributors in 26.079s

How to solve this or how to install solidity?

Answer 1

Use this instead:

sudo snap install solc​

Answer 2

As far as I can understand the file you need to install needs to install into root folder and right now you are not getting the permissions to do that, so simply getting into superuser mode would suffice.

To do that execute the following command :

sudo su

sudo npm install -g solc​

Comments

Hi @DeadShotOne96, that did not work for me. Can you please help me out!

Thank you!

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Hi @Vipul, can you please mention the error logs