title: Cannot install express globally
body: <p>I am trying to install express globally but everytime I run the command line 'npm install -g express' I get the following error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/express
  npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/express
  npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/express'
  npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/express']
  npm ERR!   errno: 3,
  npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
  npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/express',
  npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
  npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/express',
  npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
  npm ERR!   fstream_stack: 
  npm ERR!    [ '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
  npm ERR!      '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53',
  npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
  
  npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
  npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "express"
  npm ERR! cwd /Folder
  npm ERR! node -v v0.10.26
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.3
  npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/express
  npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/express
  npm ERR! fstream_type Directory
  npm ERR! fstream_class DirWriter
  npm ERR! code EACCES
  npm ERR! errno 3
  npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/express'
  npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23
  npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:37:53
  npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /Users/Folder/npm-debug.log
  npm ERR! not ok code 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a clue what the problem is?</p>