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I need to install grunt for a project setup in Windows 7. However, I am running into an issue that whenever I try to install grunt globally, it fails because of a permission error.

A few other people had this problem and a few others do not, the error that comes up is 

EPERM: operation not permitted, rename (insert npm global module path here)\grunt\node_modules\grunt-legacy-log-utils' -> '(insert npm global module path here)\grunt\node_modules\.grunt-legacy-log-utils.DELETE'

Asking for admin permissions to install software is not allowed where I am at.

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  • have you tried `npm cache clean` as suggested [here](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10826#issuecomment-165124144) – Corleone Sep 15 '17 at 17:46
  • yes, also I got admin access to run the command. The same error still comes up, even with the messaging saying to run as admin when I was running as admin. – user3346931 Sep 15 '17 at 18:59

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Turns out the error was resolved by repeatedly doing npm cache clean and npm install.

Also we also had an issue with node-sass because it couldn't reach github to download a binary.

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