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Platform: Ubuntu 14.10 Appium - 1.3.7

One similar question I had come across -

How to setup Appium in Ubuntu for android

and following suggestion, I install npm via HomeBrew

And eventually, appium execution fails with error - 

error: Appium will not work if used or installed with sudo. Please rerun/install as a non-root user. If you had to install Appium using `sudo npm install -g appium`, the solution is to reinstall Node using a method (Homebrew, for example) that doesn't require sudo to install global npm packages.

Is there anything I missed?

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Appium allows to run under sudo since 1.2.3: source

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  • I am running Appium v1.3.7 and have error with sudo – Tarun Apr 21 '15 at 08:15
  • @Tarun install node with sudo using homebrew. Try to run reset.sh – Kirill Zhukov Apr 21 '15 at 08:51
  • sudo + homebrew does not help, what is reset.sh ? – Tarun Apr 21 '15 at 11:39
  • You can find reset.sh in [Appium source code](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/reset.sh) – Kirill Zhukov Apr 21 '15 at 16:44
  • Hm. Are you running from source code? Where do you keep source code folder? Try to run reset.sh with option --hardcore like that: `sh reset.sh --hardcore`, it will completely reinstall all needed Node.js modules. If that won't help, then completely reinstall node and npm using this guide: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11177954/how-do-i-completely-uninstall-node-js-and-reinstall-from-beginning-mac-os-x – Kirill Zhukov Apr 22 '15 at 15:50
  • apparently I was on wrong directory, please see the my own response to the question – Tarun Apr 23 '15 at 07:23
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apparently I was on wrong directory when invoking invoking appium. I should be in /node-v0.12.2-linux-x64/bin$ and invoke appium. even though I was in wrong directory, the error message I received was so descriptive (and misleading) that it made me believe that I installed appium in wrong way.

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