npm installs express into /root/.node

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At the begging when express-generator couldn't installed I've used

sudo su

To install it, but after reading the following I've done what he said but it didn't helped and now the npm installs express and express-generator into /root/.node

express@4.4.1 /root/.node/lib/node_modules/express

Does anybody knows how to solve it?

What do you want to happen? I'm not sure which you want - for express to be installed there or for it not to be. Please clarify — Avery, Jun 09 '14 at 14:47
As far as I know it's not good that it's installed into /root so I want it to be installed like it should be — Yehonatan, Jun 09 '14 at 14:52
Why not just delete `/root/.node/` and reinstall **without** sudo or su? — Avery, Jun 09 '14 at 14:53
@Avery It says something similar to this - Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-express'. I'm completely confused. Is it ok that npm installs modules into /root? — Yehonatan, Jun 09 '14 at 15:37
Check your `~/.npmrc` file to make sure your prefix was actually set. — Avery, Jun 09 '14 at 15:38
@Avery It gives me "No such file or directory" when I insert the line you gave me — Yehonatan, Jun 09 '14 at 15:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Fixed it using the following solution that has been suggested here - https://stackoverflow.com/a/20750211/878244

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Jun 09 '14 at 15:51

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