RE: [EXTERNAL]Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?

[Josh Marshall <Josh.Marshall@jax.org>]

That does help, but it ought to be the default in many ways.

From: Dejan Ranisavljevic<mailto:dejan@ranisavljevic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:10 AM
To: Gary Johnson<mailto:lambdatronic@disroot.org>
Cc: Dmitry Alexandrov<mailto:321942@gmail.com>; Josh Marshall<mailto:Josh.Marshall@jax.org>; help-guix@gnu.org<mailto:help-guix@gnu.org>; Vivien Kraus<mailto:vivien@planete-kraus.eu>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?

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<mailto: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<mailto:321942@gmail.com>> writes:

> Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu<mailto: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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