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Chocolatey, npm and grunt-cli installation problems

I am having an issue with the path that my node packages are installing on Windows 8.1. Having installed node using Chocolatey I done the following steps:

Install Chocolatey
choco install npm
npm install -g grunt-cli

So having done the above I open a cmd prompt in admin mode and type 'npm', it works fine from any directory an gives me the usual npm usage stuff. Next I type 'grunt' and I get ''grunt' is not recognized as an internal or external command...'.

So straight away I think this is a PATH problem which it most likely is.

My PATH had nothing to do with npm on it, so I added 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm' to it, tried 'grunt' again with no luck. I looked inside 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules' and nothing is installed so I ran 'npm install -g grunt-cli' again and noticed

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.33\tools\grunt -> C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline
.0.10.33\tools\node_modules\grunt-cli\bin\grunt
grunt-cli@0.1.13 C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.33\tools\node_modules\grunt-cli
├── resolve@0.3.1
├── nopt@1.0.10 (abbrev@1.0.5)
└── findup-sync@0.1.3 (lodash@2.4.1, glob@3.2.11)

So from looking at this npm is installing everything in 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.33\tools\node_modules' my question is should I just add this to my path and work ahead or is there something I can do to get npm to use the default install location in 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm' as the npm-cache in 'C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache' seems to filling up as expected?

Thanks

Solution

  • NPM might be tool old from that package. It's my understanding they are no longer offering a separate NPM away from NodeJS (I could be incorrect here, I'd love to be wrong).

    I'd prefer using the nodejs.install package (which comes with npm).

    To answer your question: the location with a package version is not optimal, but I'm not sure that NPM knows a better location as of the version that is out. I don't have a good answer for you on getting NPM to look at the correct install location based on using the NPM package (which is 1.4.9). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_(software)