Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?

[Dejan Ranisavljevic]

To use different directory for global packages, you have to create ~/.npmrc
dotfile with:

prefix=~/.npm

Once you have that you should be able to do npm i -g, and package would be
installed in ~/.npm
Also don't forget to add ~/.npm/bin in your PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/.npm/bin:$PATH"

Hope this helps.

Best,
Dejan

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 17:21, Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org> wrote:

> In Guix, all system-level packages and configuration files are created
> by the package manager under /gnu/store. The /usr directory is empty on
> a Guix system.
>
> ~Gary
>
> Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> wrote:
> >> Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 14:59 +0000, Josh Marshall a écrit :
> >>> I’m trying to run `npm install -g browserify` with the output below.
> >
> >>> npm ERR! path
> /gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules
> >>
> >> I am a mere guix user, so you may want to have another answer.
> >
> > I am not even a Guix (the SD) user, but this made me curious.
> >
> >> You cannot install anything globally with NPM in guix because NPM is
> installed in a read-only location (/gnu/store/)
> >
> > So?  /usr/ in traditional GNU distributions might be read-only as well,
> but it does not impede npm(1) or pip(1) or whatever install things
> system-wide (given that operator utilize his superuser powers, of course),
> as there are plenty other hierarchies available.
> >
> > Why is npm in Guix built with default ‘prefix’¹ (means, for --global
> actions) set to package directory under /gnu/store/ instead of, say,
> /usr/local?
> >
> > ---
> > ¹
> >       $ npm config get prefix
>
>
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