On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Sebastian Sester <sestersebast...@gmail.com> wrote:
since npm gets installed to /usr/local, I can't execute it without sudo. > Also, changing the ownership of /usr/local/… to my user (as often > suggested) won't help, since other users need to access it, too. > Because npm only needs elevated privileges when you’re installing packages globally (with -g / --global), and because you should only do that when you need binaries exposed by those packages to be available systemwide, you should only need to use sudo comparatively infrequently. Most of the time, npm installs packages into the closest node_modules directory. Are you running into a situation where this isn’t the case? As an aside, you may want to build and install node from source. The Debian packaging of node is quirky, and using either the official binary tarball (if you don’t feel like installing build-essential) or building from source is likely to be more straightforward in the long run. F -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAHG3qKo9A%2BLmeAj-Cno7i%2BnwtUPQsNzdNV%3Dg_UMEu5NtonWDvQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
