yet-another-option.sh

# install node wherever.
# use sudo even, it doesn't matter
# we're telling npm to install in a different place.

#for youtube_12

echo prefix = ~/local >> ~/.npmrc
# curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
# use this below instead to avoid install.sh newline error 
curl -O https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh
# avoid this error: find: `/usr/local/lib/node': No such file or directory
#sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/{lib/node,include/node}
mkdir local
sudo sh install.sh

echo "export NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:/home/ubuntu/local/lib/node_modules" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

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npm cache clean

/* 
$ echo $PATH
/home/ubuntu/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

$ which yo
/home/ubuntu/local/bin/yo

~/local/lib/node_modules$ ls -alt
total 32
drwxrwxr-x  4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 23 00:11 generator-karma
drwxrwxr-x  8 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 23 00:11 .
drwxrwxr-x 19 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 23 00:11 generator-angular
drwxrwxr-x  7 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 22 23:47 bower
drwxrwxr-x  6 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 22 23:47 grunt-cli
drwxrwxr-x  4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 22 23:44 yo
drwxrwxr-x  9 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 22:52 npm
drwxrwxr-x  4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 22:52 ..

~/.node/lib/node_modules$ ls -alt
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 19 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 22 01:19 generator-angular
drwxr-xr-x  8 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 22 01:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 23:15 npm
drwxr-xr-x  4 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 22:00 yo
drwxr-xr-x  4 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 22:00 generator-karma
drwxr-xr-x  7 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 21:57 bower
drwxr-xr-x  6 nobody ubuntu 4096 Feb 17 21:57 grunt-cli
drwxr-xr-x  3 root   root   4096 Feb 17 21:55 ..

~/.nvm/v0.10.26/lib/node_modules$ ls -alt
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 18 23:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 18 23:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x 9 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Feb 18 23:44 npm
*/