CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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DeliciousMe
DeliciousMe

Reputation: 71

npm installing executable in usr/local/share/npm/bin rather than usr/local/bin

For example I tried installing npm serve globally 

$ npm install -g serve

but after seemingly successfully installing it, I was unable to run the serve executable. Seems like the command just could not be found. Turns out the exe serve file was located in:

usr/local/share/npm/bin

rather than in what I thought should be (where all the other executable files are):

usr/local/bin

Any idea why I can't seem to get this to work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2349

Answers (1)

Steve Jansen
Steve Jansen

Reputation: 9492

Similar to this answer, create/edit ~/.npmrc to include:

prefix = /usr/local/bin

Upvotes: 3

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