How can I add npm (node.js package manager) to the PATH?

Question

I installed node.js like this:

cd /usr/local/bin/
git clone --depth 1 http://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout origin/v0.4 # optional.  Note that master is unstable.
export JOBS=2 # optional, sets number of parallel commands.
mkdir ~/local
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
make
make install
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

Then I executed this curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh to install npm. After I logged out and logged back in, npm command wasn't recognized:

[/usr/local/bin/node]# npm install now
-bash: npm: command not found

What should I add to the PATH to have npm working?

Answer 1

Try this:

git clone https://github.com/npm/cli
cd npm/cli
sudo make install

That advice comes from of https://github.com/isaacs/npm#readme.

It is not as cute as curl|sh, but works.