Linux/AWS beanstalk failure : permission denied

[BHare1985]

mapnik@3.5.13 preinstall /tmp/deployment/application/node_modules/windwalker/node_modules/mapnik
npm install node-pre-gyp

npm WARN package.json mapnik@3.5.13 No license field.
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.8-20.46.amzn1.x86_64
npm ERR! argv "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v4.4.3-linux-x64/bin/node" "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v4.4.3-linux-x64/bin/npm" "install" "node-pre-gyp"
npm ERR! node v4.4.3
npm ERR! npm v2.15.1
npm ERR! path /tmp/.npm/node-pre-gyp
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall mkdir

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/tmp/.npm/node-pre-gyp'
npm ERR! at Error (native)
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/tmp/.npm/node-pre-gyp']
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'mkdir',
npm ERR! path: '/tmp/.npm/node-pre-gyp',
npm ERR! parent: 'mapnik' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

Node 4.4.3 on AMI Linux (AWS Beanstalk) when installing node mapnik 3.5.13. Worked finewith Node 0.12.5 and node mapnik 3.4.5

SSH to the directiory under ec2-user and re-running the command "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v4.4.3-linux-x64/bin/node" "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v4.4.3-linux-x64/bin/npm" "install" "node-pre-gyp" has it install without problem.

I have a feeling this may be an amazon problem more than a node-pre-gyp, but any help is appreciated. I have verified I haven't deployed with my node_modules folder as others with the same error have said to try.

One reason why I think this may be node-pre-gyp related is a google of the issue mostly points to this module. Also upon inspecting /tmp/.npm/ I see all the other modules which installed fine, so if it was a permission issue how come they were able to install into that directory without issue but node-pre-gyp fails, not sure.

[BHare1985]

This is no longer an issue, culprit was node-mapnik's setting node-pre-gyp as preinstall and amazon beanstalk running preinstall as non-root