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cURL failed to initialize

Trying to install npm for node v0.6.2 using $ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh but encountered error from cURL saying, curl: (2) Failed initialization. I tried cURL other links also, but same ...
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In Node.js, how can a module get data from an application's package.json?

I have a module. Inside it, I'd like to access data from my parent application's package.json file. What's the best practice way to do that? I've done this the janky way by going up 2 levels and ...
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Multiple github private npm repositories on a server

I have a node application on github in a private repository. This node application also has custom modules that I made and they are in a separate private repository. This is the example node ...
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How can I configure npm-gyp on Windows to use gcc instead of VC++?

Is there a way to configure npm-gyp to use gcc (as it appears to on Linux) on a Windows box?
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grunt.js grunt-init issue

I recently moved to grunt-cli and ditched global grunt v0.3.x. I'm trying to install grunt-init globally and ran into an issue where it wasn't being added to the PATH because of the missing bin file ...
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`npm install <folder>` or `npm pack` does not install dependencies

I have an npm package that uses coffeescript source, which I want to precompile before pack or publish. However, my prepublish script depends on coffee-script as a devDependency, but npm isn't ...
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Why is npm not honoring user/global npmingore?

My editor produces workspace files and backup folders which are of no interest to users of the software I write. In order to avoid having to list my editor-specific ignores in each project, I'm ...
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Error when installing Forever for node.js server

I'm trying to install Forever for my node.js server but getting following error when npm install -g forever, I have node v0.8.5 and npm v1.1.46 npm ERR! fetch failed ...
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How can I change the default location for NPM installs on Windows?

When I install modules with NPM on Windows, it installs them to: ~/node_modules I'd like to set change this to an arbitrary path such as: c:\dev\repo\node_modules I've tried npm config set ...
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Node-xmpp: Cannot read propery 'write' of undefined

I'm having an issue with node-xmpp, server-side settings out of my control maybe have changed but this error is relatively new. Looking for some pointers/insight, I've not been able to solve this ...
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Error: invalid signature: 0x4acf92ad (at position: 0x29)

I was trying to convert excel into json in node. I found a few modules that may be helpful. I tried npm excel https://npmjs.org/package/excel‎ My app.js var express = require('express'); //Call ...
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Trouble installing coffee-script with npm

Here is my console output after running sudo npm install -g coffee-script Joshuas-MacBook-Pro-2:~ jwalsh$ sudo npm install -g coffee-script npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script npm ...
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Setup NPM prepublish minify script

I want to setup a script that will minify my Javascript code before I publish it using NPM. As far as I understand, this should be possible using this in package.json: "scripts": { "prepublish": ...
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npm command - sudo or not?

Currently I always run sudo npm install <package-name> but as I understand it's not correct. I want to have opportunity not to use it as root/Administrator. I followed some advice and used this ...
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Unable to install LDAP modules into Node.js using npm install

I am using Node.js for my application, and I'm quite new to it. I have a case of acquiring credentials of users from an LDAP server, for which I have found enough modules in NPM registry. But none of ...

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