Can't install netlify-cli on Ubuntu 20.04

Hi, @lemurweb-dev. First, it should be not required to run sudo to install the Netlify CLI tool. However, when using sudo with npm you often need to add a --unsafe-perm=true option like so:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm=true netlify-cli

So, this is unrelated to the netlify-cli package itself. It is due to installing the dependency esbuild-linux-64 using sudo.

Again, though, I would usually ask you to reconsider using sudo with npm in the first place as this isn’t something that is usually required.

If there are other questions or concerns, please let us know.

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