# Pastebin tCoUPPyo
Here are the step by step ways I solved this issue. I used 'brew' to install node and ran into this issue exactly: the node command worked but not the npm command

sudo brew uninstall node
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup
brew install node
sudo chown -R myusername /usr/local
brew link --overwrite node
sudo brew postinstall node

I pieced together this solution after trial and error using this thread and this site: http://developpeers.com/blogs/fix-for-homebrew-permission-denied-issues