Hi I am trying to install a module globally which i made to a gzipped tarball.I downloaded the source from github and converted to a tar.gz and then i tried to install it using the following command
npm install forever.tar.gz -g
It threw me the following error
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /home/administrator/forever.tar.gz
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/root/tmp/npm-18157/1367900009061- 0.2676603845320642/package/package.json'
My requirement is that i should not connect to any external url (ie) https://registry.npmjs.org/forever for any installation.I should be able to install from the tarball from my directory.I am stuck here any help will be much appreciated.
this error tells you, that the package.json in your tar was not found...
did you change something in your repository? how did you tarball the repo?
i did these steps and everything worked fine:
$ git clone https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever.git
$ tar -cvzf forever.tar.gz forever
$ npm install forever.tar.gz -g
hint: you dont need to tarball the repository, npm install can also be performed on local folders:
$ git clone https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever.git
$ npm install forever/