npm not installing bower on OSX 10.10.1 - npm

Question

Anybody know how to fix this?
/Users/foo $npm install -g bower
npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
npm http fetch GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower/-/bower-1.3.12.tgz
npm http fetch 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower/-/bower-1.3.12.tgz
npm ERR! Darwin 14.0.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "bower"
npm ERR! node v0.12.0
npm ERR! npm v2.5.1
npm ERR! path /Users/foo/.node/bin/bower
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, unlink '/Users/foo/.node/bin/bower'
npm ERR! at Error (native)
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, unlink '/Users/foo/.node/bin/bower'
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES'
npm ERR! path: '/Users/foo/.node/bin/bower' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! error rolling back Error: EACCES, unlink'/Users/foo/.node/bin/bower'
npm ERR! error rolling back at Error (native)
npm ERR! error rolling back { [Error: EACCES, unlink '/Users/foo/.node/bin/bower']
npm ERR! error rolling back errno: -13,
npm ERR! error rolling back code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! error rolling back path: '/Users/foo/.node/bin/bower' }
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npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /Users/foo/npm-debug.log
/Users/foo$echo $PATH
/Users/foo/.npm:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin
:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/share/npm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

Answer 1

Have you tried running it as Root user? try
sudo npm install -g bower
The npm ERR! code EACCES usually results because it didn't have permission to access a necessary folder or file