I have been trying to install Cordova and ionic on ubuntu 18.04. Cordova installed fine, but ionic generated this error:
WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/ionic
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/ionic
npm ERR! code ELOOP
npm ERR! errno -40
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/ionic'
I tried upgrading npm to version 6.10.1. Still, it did not work! Also, when I used ls -la /usr/lib/node_modules
I got the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root marwa 5 Jul 18 22:32 ionic -> ionic