Can't install

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Hey @Ruriko, welcome to the community :tada:

I am sorry to hear you’re having trouble with getting n8n up and running. The output you have shared suggests a permission problem to me:

(...)
gyp WARN EACCES current user ("nobody") does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.cache/node-gyp/14.19.0"
(...)
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/ssh2/.node-gyp'
(...)

This is something I can’t reproduce on my end and I suspect it might be related to how you have installed Node.js and npm. You might want to try running the install command with sudo.

However, an easier way might be the use of docker. That way, all of the installation would happen in an isolated container coming with a working Node.js environment without having any effect on your existing setup. Assuming you have docker installed already, you could fire up an n8n container like this:

docker run -it --rm \
    --name n8n \
    -p 5678:5678 \
    -v ~/.n8n:/home/node/.n8n \
    n8nio/n8n