I am trying to install SailsJS with:
$ sudo npm install -g sails
It works, install everything at /home/brunoluiz/npm/lib/node_modules/sails with the following log:
/home/brunoluiz/npm/bin/sails -> /home/brunoluiz/npm/lib/node_modules/sails/bin/sails.js
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The problem is when you try to use sails: you run sails new project
, for example, and it doesn't find sails. Investigating a little bit, I discovered npm is not installing the modules at /usr/bin. Is there some reason for that? Some config?
The same is happening with Karma module.
I used the nodejs from ppa, created the symbolic link for node and installed npm from the official install.sh script (https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh).
It sounds like your npm
installation is configured to use /home/brunoluiz/npm
as prefix
, meaning that it will place symlinks to the CLIs that come with globally installed packages in {prefix}/bin
.
In a default installation, prefix
is either /usr
or /usr/local
on Unix platforms (%APPDATA%/npm
on Windows).
If {prefix}/bin
is not in your $PATH
, you won't be able to execute such CLIs just by name.
To see the current prefix
value in effect, run:
npm get prefix
Your options are:
Add /home/brunoluiz/npm/bin
to your $PATH
Change the value of the prefix
configuration item to a folder whose bin
subfolder is already in your $PATH
; e.g.:
npm set prefix /usr # Ubuntu; CLI symlinks are placed in /usr/bin
npm set prefix /usr/local # OSX; CLIs symlinks are placed in /usr/local/bin
Note, however, that you'd then have to reinstall your global packages for the symlinks to be created in the new {prefix}\bin
location.
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