NPM modules won’t install globally without sudo

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Ubuntu 12.04 and using Chris Lea’s PPA for install the following works for me:

npm config set prefix '~/.npm-packages'

and adding $HOME/.npm-packages/bin to $PATH

Append to .bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.npm-packages/bin"

For more see this answer from @passy

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