Why does npm need sudo for EVERYTHING?

Question

I don\'t know how I\'ve managed it but npm seems to need sudo for absolutely every command, even npm help does not work without sudo. If I use a co

Answer 1

I had this as well on my machine. What I did to fix it (there are probably much less extreme ways) was to completely remove npm, and then did a fresh installation node.js (with which npm is included) from http://nodejs.org/ making sure I didn't install as root. That then allowed me to use npm without root (except for global installs).