NPM won't install any package on Mac. New, clean build. `EACCES` & other errors

Question

I\'ve just rebuild my Mavericks (Mac OS X Version 9.4) machine from scratch. I am the administrator and only user of this machine.

• I installed Git via their

Answer 1

to start fresh remove prior node.js and npm installs as well as these :

~/.npmrc ~/.npm ~/tmp ~/.npm-init.js

to install nodejs and npm as yourself NOT root do these commands (linux) :

mkdir ${HOME}/bin

download source from : http://nodejs.org/download/

cd v0.10.30/

./configure   --prefix=${HOME}/bin/nodejs

make -j8
make install

which puts it into dir defined by above --prefix

export PATH=${HOME}/bin/nodejs/bin:$PATH

NODE_PATH so node can find dir for modules otherwise npm install xxx will put newly installed module into dir in curr dir :

export NODE_PATH=${HOME}/bin/nodejs/lib/node_modules

do above AND use syntax : npm install xxxxx -g always use the -g for global

nodejs install gives you npm as well :

ls -la ${HOME}/bin/nodejs/bin