Filter installation fails when running npm as root user

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Please add the following command to the wiki page for HSP/CDR generation:

npm -g config set user root

See log snippet below for an example of such an issue when attempting to install @pastash/filter_app_hsp:

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root@poc-cdc-hepic:/usr/lib# npm -g install @pastash/filter_app_hsp

[email protected] install /usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3
node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v72 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding'
gyp WARN EACCES current user ("nobody") does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.cache/node-gyp/12.20.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/.node-gyp'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node" "--module_name=node_sqlite3" "--module_path=/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64" "--napi_version=7" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=0" "--node_napi_label=node-v72"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3
gyp ERR! node -v v12.20.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64 --napi_version=7 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v72' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1022:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:287:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v12.20.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.11.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/usr/lib/node_modules/@pastash/filter_app_hsp/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-linux-x64 --napi_version=7 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v72' (1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2020-12-02T20_08_40_035Z-debug.log