Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2014 17:26:39 UTC+2 schrieb Forrest L Norvell: > > Because npm only needs elevated privileges when you’re installing packages > globally (with -g / --global) [...] Are you running into a situation > where this isn’t the case? > I only can use the command as root; it simply says the command doesn't exist to other users. Which is because npm is installed in /usr/lib/node_modules/ and that directory is owned by root right after the script finished (i.e. I didn't set it like this): drwxr----- 3 nobody root 4096 Jun 14 03:20 node_modules
And I just realized that when I fixed the group I obviously forgot to fix the rights themselves, too. :-( (Just did that and it's working now as expected.) As an aside, you may want to build and install node from source. The Debian > packaging of node is quirky, and using either the official binary tarball > (if you don’t feel like installing build-essential) or building from > source is likely to be more straightforward in the long run. > I first tried to use the tarball but I got the same errors there and wasn't sure if it's my fault or not; that's the only reason why I switched to the debian repo. Thanks a lot, Sebastian > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/c633fa29-8da5-4839-85d5-abd02c58ee4d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
