22 Apr 2017 Search

Setting up a couple of Linux systems to work with FilterBubbler, which is one of the things that I’m up to at work now. FilterBubbler is a WebExtension, and the setup instructions use web-ext, so I need NPM. In order to keep all the NPM stuff under my own home directory, but still put the web-ext tool on my $PATH, I need to make one-line edits to three files.

One line in ~/.npmrc

prefix = ~/.npm

One line in ~/.gitignore

.npm/

One line in ~/.bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.npm/bin"

(My /bashrc has a bunch of export PATH= lines so that when I add or remove one it’s more likely to get a clean merge. Because home directory in git.) I think that’s it. Now I can do

npm install --global web-ext

with no sudo or mess. And when I clone my home directory on another system it will just work.

Based on: HowTo: npm global install without root privileges by Johannes Klose