title: How to run a react native program on android 10 in termux
body: <p>I want to do both programming and running apps on my Android. So I am trying out termux. I have a working react native program that I wrote on Ubuntu.</p>
  <p>I opened termux navigated to the program folder and did npm install. This is the output:</p>
  <pre><code>$ npm install
  npm ERR! code EPERM
  npm ERR! syscall symlink
  npm ERR! path ../@babel/parser/bin/babel-parser.js
  npm ERR! dest /storage/emulated/0/lightBag_ExpoVersion2/node_modules/.bin/parser
  npm ERR! errno -1
  npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '../@babel/parser/bin/babel-parser.js' -&gt; '/storage/emulated/0/lightBag_ExpoVersion2/node_modules/.bin/parser'
  npm ERR!  [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '../@babel/parser/bin/babel-parser.js' -&gt; '/storage/emulated/0/lightBag_ExpoVersion2/node_modules/.bin/parser'] {
  npm ERR!   errno: -1,
  npm ERR!   code: 'EPERM',
  npm ERR!   syscall: 'symlink',
  npm ERR!   path: '../@babel/parser/bin/babel-parser.js',
  npm ERR!   dest: '/storage/emulated/0/lightBag_ExpoVersion2/node_modules/.bin/parser'
  npm ERR! }
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
  npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
  npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
  npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.
  
  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.npm/_logs/2021-03-20T09_47_18_096Z-debug.log
  </code></pre>