Nodejs + npm, installing modules on ntfs partition

Question

I have a problem when installing npm modules. NodeJS is installed on Ubuntu 11.10 running on Virtual Box on Windows host. My project files are on NTFS partition (I have to share

Answer 1

Since version 1.2.21, npm has a new option for the install command. --no-bin-links

You can use if for installing a specific node module

npm install express --no-bin-links

and also for a package.json install

npm install --no-bin-links

With this option I've been able to install many npm modules without problems in my shared forlder inside the VM (Ubuntu guest, Windows Host)

The commit where the option was added to the npm code is b4c58617039c21c10889a9869f8e86a23e17d3a0