On Mar 9, 2014, at 07:59, James Bay wrote:

> I installed the nodejs under Ubuntu and ran npm, to locally install express, 
> but for some reason it requires root:
> 
> james@station:~/projects/first-project$ npm install express
> npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/express
> npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/express
> npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/james/tmp/npm-2663-k-g07auj'
> npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/james/tmp/npm-2663-k-g07auj']
> npm ERR! errno: 3,
> npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
> npm ERR! path: '/home/james/tmp/npm-2663-k-g07auj' }
> npm ERR!
> npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

What are the permissions of /home/james/tmp? Perhaps they need to be adjusted 
to be more permissive?

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