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PONPM modules won't install globally without sudo
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copied!<p><strong>I have just reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and before anything else i did these steps</strong>:</p> <ol> <li><p>Installed Node via package manager with the following script</p> <pre><code>sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs </code></pre></li> <li><p>Tried to install yeoman, express, n, yeoman's generators globally and all of them returned the same error</p> <blockquote> <p>npm ERR! Error: EACCES, symlink '../lib/node_modules/n/bin/n'</p> <p>npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, symlink '../lib/node_modules/n/bin/n'] errno: 3, code: 'EACCES', path: '../lib/node_modules/n/bin/n' }</p> <p>npm ERR! </p> <p>npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.</p> <p>npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-29-generic</p> <p>npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "-d" "n"</p> <p>npm ERR! cwd /home/heberlz</p> <p>npm ERR! node -v v0.10.20</p> <p>npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11</p> <p>npm ERR! path ../lib/node_modules/n/bin/n</p> <p>npm ERR! code EACCES</p> <p>npm ERR! errno 3</p> <p>npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, symlink '../lib/node_modules/n/bin/n'</p> <p>npm ERR! </p> <p>npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:</p> <p>npm ERR! /home/heberlz/npm-debug.log</p> <p>npm ERR! not ok code 0</p> </blockquote></li> <li><p><strong>Reclaimed ownership of the following folders recursively</strong> ~/.npm, /usr/lib/node, /usr/lib/node_modules, and of the following symlinks /usr/bin/node, /usr/bin/nodejs <strong>with absolutely no success</strong></p></li> </ol> <p>I need to install yeoman and its generators without sudo not to be in trouble later on :(</p>

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