Can't Install in Docker

[node-red-contrib-themes]

Can't Install in Docker

[bonanitech]

By the error message you're getting, you're probably trying to install the package in the wrong directory.
I think you have to install the package into /data inside the container in this case.

[ModestTG]

@bonanitech Thanks for the quick reply! I tried this using the following method, but got the same error

bash-5.0$ npm install --prefix /data @node-red-contrib-themes/dracula
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path /.npm
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in
npm ERR! previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! To permanently fix this problem, please run:
npm ERR!   sudo chown -R 1020:1002 "/.npm"

Screenshot

Is there another way to specify this directory?

[bonanitech]

cd /data
npm install @node-red-contrib-themes/dracula

[ModestTG]

@bonanitech I got the same error when switching into that directory. Do I need to install these packages as root? when I run whoami it shows as the 1020, which is the user I have for user: $PUID in my compose file

[ModestTG]

I was able to get this installed. I had to login to the container as root, and then install the container. Here are the steps I took:

docker exec -it -u root NodeRed bash
cd /data
npm install @node-red-contrib-themes/dracula

This was most likely required since I chose to run the container as another user so I can access the files with my user and not have them be restricted to root (by setting the user attribute in docker-compose). This issue can be closed. Thanks for your help!

[ksmarty]

As an addendum to this, here is my docker compose to get the theme to remain installed after reboot/update:

---
version: "2.3"
services:
  node-red:
    image: nodered/node-red
    container_name: node-red
    ports:
      - 1880:1880
    volumes:
      - ${USERDIR}/node-red:/data:rw
    entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
    command:
      - |
        cd /usr/src/node-red
        npm i @node-red-contrib-themes/dracula
        npm start --cache /data/.npm -- --userDir /data