Giancarlos

Adopted from here https://topaxi.codes/use-npm-without-root-or-sudo-rights/

I'm saving this as a gist and modifying it to ensure that if the original blog post disappears it lives on somewhere.

Added some notes for Ubuntu 18.04 and similar.

Today we're going to setup our npm installation to be used without root or sudo rights.

By default, if you install packages globally with npm, npm tries to install them into a system directory (i.e. /usr/local/lib/node_modules). With the next steps, we're going to use your home directory for those files.

soardex

# install build dependencies
sudo yum install -y git-core zlib zlib-devel gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel make bzip2 autoconf automake libtool bison curl sqlite-devel

# clone and install rbenv environment
cd ~
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile