Install NPM into home directory with distribution nodejs package (Ubuntu)

Question

I\'d like to use the distribution Node.js packages (or the chris-lea ppa for more recent releases) but install NPM to my home directory.

This may seem picky, but it

Answer 1

Other answers have outdated solutions: 2020's solution is using NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX environment variable. (See details)

For example,

$ NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX="$HOME/.npm-packages" npm install -g ios-sim
/Users//.npm-packages/bin/ios-sim -> /Users//.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/ios-sim/bin/ios-sim
+ ios-sim@9.0.0
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