Install NPM from Command Line

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I was trying to update my version of NPM using NPM but long story short, a permissions issue allowed NPM to be removed but not re-installed, and thus I was hosed -- NPM was nowhere to be found on "Walshbook Pro."  Eeeek.  Well, you can install NPM via command line with this command:

curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Life without NPM is no life worth living at all.  AT ALL!  Keep this handy in case you do something stupid like me!

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Discussion

  1. If you use Debian you can just install it with

    sudo apt-get install npm
    • Installing npm with sudo can later cause problems with permissions for some packages (for me it was yeoman)

  2. If you’ve installed node via Homebrew, there was an issue where you could’t update NPM itself if you installed it via Homebrew Node. This is fixed in latest version Homebrew Node package, so you can delete Node and install it again.

  3. I think using NVM is better than anything else: https://github.com/creationix/nvm

    • If you can trust installing a binary from a website, why can’t you trust running a script?

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