Problems to install in Ubuntu 16.04

[aburbanol]

Hi,

I'm trying to install appy without docker. I can install the backend and it is working. However, the frontend has problems installing geckodriver using 'npm install' or 'sudo npm install'.

I found in some blogs different ways to install it like:
sudo npm i -g geckodriver --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
or
sudo yarn add geckodriver

both install succesfully the geckodriver, but when I start the frontend or when I run again 'npm install' I got the same initial error

[email protected] postinstall /home/aburbanol/dev/WebApps/appy/frontend/node_modules/geckodriver

node index.js

Downloading geckodriver... events.js:183
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'geckodriver.tar.gz'
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of eslint-config-standard@^11.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of hapi@>=13.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: node index.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/aburbanol/.npm/_logs/2018-07-05T12_13_20_368Z-debug.log

[JKHeadley]

@aburbanol hmm, I'm not familiar with this issue. Have you tried:

sudo yarn global add geckodriver

?