globally installed npm-packages not working [closed]

Answer 1

turns out it tried to start with node instead of nodejs command. So in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee I changed #!/usr/bin/env node to #!/usr/bin/env nodejs and works fine now.

Answer 2

is NODE_PATH variable set on your environment

//show if set
echo $NODE_PATH

//set NODE_PATH
NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node_modules"

The NODE_PATH should contain the location of directories where the modules are installed. It can have multiple directories (colon seperated).