Github user kxepal commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-chttpd/pull/33#issuecomment-106041063
@janl @nolanlawson need your help with:
```
$ npm link ../express-pouchdb
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink
'/home/kxepal/tmp/pouchdb/express-pouchdb' ->
'/usr/lib64/node_modules/express-pouchdb'
npm ERR! at Error (native)
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink
'/home/kxepal/tmp/pouchdb/express-pouchdb' ->
'/usr/lib64/node_modules/express-pouchdb']
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'symlink',
npm ERR! path: '/home/kxepal/tmp/pouchdb/express-pouchdb',
npm ERR! dest: '/usr/lib64/node_modules/express-pouchdb' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
```
I do not want to let npm install anything in my system bypassing system
package manager. How can I tell `npm link` to use local directory, not
`/usr/lib64/...`?
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