Hello,

See the errors  below.
Does the npm install wipe out the files under /tmp? My downloads usually
goto /tmp and they are wiped out. Why does it need to clean out the /tmp
dir?

Thanks

$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  
Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  
Speed
100  3902  100  3902    0     0  16745      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
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fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.15.tgz
0.5.0
1.0.15
prefix=/usr/local/node
altprefix=/usr/local/node-v0.5.0

This script will find and eliminate any shims, symbolic
links, and other cruft that was installed by npm 0.x.

Is this OK? enter 'yes' or 'no'
yes

All clean!
! [ -d .git ] || git submodule update --init
node cli.js cache clean
node cli.js rm npm -g -f --loglevel error
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
directories: No such file or directory

node.js:360
    var cwd = process.cwd();
                      ^
Error: No such file or directory
    at Function.resolveArgv0 (node.js:360:23)
    at startup (node.js:48:13)
    at node.js:474:3
gmake: *** [uninstall] Error 11

node.js:360
    var cwd = process.cwd();
                      ^
Error: No such file or directory
    at Function.resolveArgv0 (node.js:360:23)
    at startup (node.js:48:13)
    at node.js:474:3

node.js:360
    var cwd = process.cwd();
                      ^
Error: No such file or directory
    at Function.resolveArgv0 (node.js:360:23)
    at startup (node.js:48:13)
    at node.js:474:3

node.js:360
    var cwd = process.cwd();
                      ^
Error: No such file or directory
    at Function.resolveArgv0 (node.js:360:23)
    at startup (node.js:48:13)
    at node.js:474:3
It failed

It appears that I am the only one having this issue!

Is anyone able to successfully install npm under the latest node release
(v0.5) on CentOS 5.5?
Every time I try 'curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh' as root, it empties
my /tmp clean!

Thanks

What is `npm config ls`?

Remember, this is a new install and hence can't run "npm config ls"!

I tried to set the tmpdir as following:
        export TMPDIR=/tmp/tmp_npm; curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

I had few files and couple of dir (including the /tmp/tmp_npm) under /tmp/
and all of them got deleted.

mkdir -p ~/npm-tmp/some-folder
touch ~/npm-tmp/some-folder/some-file
echo tmproot = ~/npm-tmp > ~/.npmrc
mkdir npm-1.0.15
cd npm-1.0.15
curl -O http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.15.tgz
tar zxf npm-1.0.15.tgz
cd package
./configure
make install
ls -laF ~/npm-tmp

This worked! folders and files under some-folder survived:
$ ls -laF ~/npm-tmp
total 16
drwxrwxr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul 11 15:12 ./
drwxr-x--- 25 root root 4096 Jul 11 15:12 ../
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 11 15:12 some-folder/

I am now able to do 'npm ls', but when I did 'npm update', it is kind of
stuck there for the past 10 minutes. I see that connect, express, mongodb
and mongoose dir are updated with time stamp 15:18, and date now is:
$ date
Mon Jul 11 15:28:47 EDT 2011
npm update is still running. Is it OK if I break it? Does it leave any
updates in an unstable state?

Thanks

I did `npm cache clean` and then 'npm update', but it still does not
terminate.

https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/1139