Inconsistent behavior when installing NPM packages worldwide

Question

I am trying to install NPM packages on Ubuntu (12.04). I installed Node.js and NPM through the Chris Lea PPA repository .

I'm trying to deploy

Answer 1

You need to install it only with npm install -d , without -g . Package requirements are local to each package (so you have node_modules\a when you depend on a and node_modules\a\node_modules\b when a depends on b ).

See http://npmjs.org/doc/faq.html#I-installed-something-globally-but-I-can-t-require-it for details.

Answer 2

flushing the cache worked for me

 npm cache clean 

Answer 3

For me, this is solved with the following command -

npm install -d kanso@0.3.4 --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/