Can't use globally installed npm packages about nvm

[ljharb]

The issue is that npm root -g is returning the wrong place - specifically, npm config get prefix should not be returning ${HOME}/.local/share/npm. Do you have that defined in ~/.npmrc? If so, remove it.

[ljharb]

aha, ok so that's the problem - that's taking precedence over nvm's npm. if you have a system node/npm, either uninstall/remove them, or, make sure that your PATH puts nvm's dirs in front of /usr/bin

[omnigenous]

@ljharb Commented prefix line from my npm config, now it looks likes this:

#prefix=${XDG_DATA_HOME}/npm # don't use with nvm
cache=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/npm
init-module=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/npm/config/npm-init.js
logs-dir=${XDG_STATE_HOME}/npm/logs

$ echo $(npm root -g)
/usr/lib/node_modules

However npm install -g forever returns error:

npm error code EACCES
npm error syscall mkdir
npm error path /usr/lib/node_modules/forever
npm error errno -13
npm error Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/forever'

[ljharb]

(to be clear, you shouldn't be using prefix ever with anything; the location for global modules shouldn't be overridden)

when nvm has a node version used, npm root -g should return a path that's inside $NVM_DIR. What does npm config get prefix return?

[omnigenous]

npm config get prefix returns /usr

[ljharb]

ok, so that's the problem. is there anything relevant in env | grep -i prefix?

(do note that tmux sets PREFIX which makes it incompatible with npm)

[omnigenous]

is there anything relevant in env | grep -i prefix?

Nope, only:

PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/home/user/.cache/python

Not using tmux either

[ljharb]

and which npm still prints ${NVM_DIR}/versions/node/v20.14.0/bin/npm?

[omnigenous]

Nope, which npm returns /usr/bin/npm

[omnigenous]

This was such a headache and even after multiple attempts over a span of few days I didn't come close to solving this. Ended up burning out and haven't touch node stuff for entire summer.

Just use fnm so much easier to setup and use, took me couple minute to get it working: https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

yay -S fnm-bin

Add to .zshrc (or more options: https://github.com/Schniz/fnm#shell-setup)

eval "$(fnm env --use-on-cd --shell zsh)"