Question

Setting npm up as the root user is straighforward and workds. Except you have to run npm commands as root (not recommended). So I thought I d try setting it up as a non-root user.

According to npm documentation, a non-root user without root access can set up npm by:

creating a .npmrc file with root, binroot, and manroot pointing to folders that the user owns.
Then running the install script.

OK. Install was fine.

But node can t see the packages provided by npm.

So how do I make node aware of the packages provided by npm? (I didn t have to do anything when I previously installed npm as root). I can set require.paths within node, or set the NODE_PATH environment variable, but to what?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Through a little exploration, it seems you can either:

set your NODE_PATH to whatever npm s root directory is, or
while in node, invoke require.paths.push( path_to_npm_root )

Answer 2

This worked for me:

Make a ~/.node folder
```
mkdir ~/.node
```
Edit ~/.npmrc and add the line
```
prefix = ~/.node
```

Edit your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile and add these lines

PATH="$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH"
NODE_PATH="$HOME/.node/lib/node_modules:$NODE_PATH"

Now I can do things like npm -g install http-server and it will install to ~/.node without root. With this in place, when I then type http-server, it runs.

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