sudo: npm: command not found

Question

I\'m trying to upgrade to the latest version of node. I\'m following the instructions at http://davidwalsh.name/upgrade-nodejs

But when I do:

sudo np         


        

Answer 1

If you installed node/npm with nvm, the nvm environment configuration file has to be run before you can use either package.

This is generally found in ~/.nvm/nvm.sh.

To run this automatically, include:

source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

in the .bash_profile file for your user

If you then want to use sudo with that user, make sure to include the -i parameter to make sudo set the user environment. eg

sudo -iu jenkins npm install grunt-cli