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kulak

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Registered: 2020-12-27

Posts: 26

npm global installation location

I just installed this tool using npm:

    sudo npm install -g article_md

And it worked great.  The installation location is

    /usr/lib/node_modules/article_md

The binary is in

   /usr/bin/article_md

However, a thought occurred that this might not a good location.

In Arch /usr/ directory tree is managed by packages.  Thus, the might be a package that installs article_md at least into /usr/bin/article_md.

I think that it is more appropriate for this type of installation to go to "/usr/local/bin", because that's not owned by packages. 

I understand that things like that are very difficult to change and "npm" is not under Arch control.

Is there any option that at least will allow me to direct npm installation into "/usr/local" instead of "/usr"?  It would be nice if I could configure that and forget about it.

Last edited by kulak (2022-08-13 14:51:53)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,893

Re: npm global installation location

Yes, don't add -g or --global to npm install.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Node.j … s_with_npm for details

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2022-08-13 17:22:36)

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