isaacs/npm — Issue #1552: installation error on windows
Author: magnetik
Created: 2011-10-14 09:32:17+00:00
State: open

Tried installation of latest NPM on Windows 7.
Followed each part of the README.

Here is the log :
```C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm>node cli.js install npm -gf
npm ERR! Error: User and Group IDs must be an integer.
npm ERR! at Object.chown (fs.js:501:11)
npm ERR! at Object.GRACEFUL [as chown] (C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\node
_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:38:6)
npm ERR! at C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\lib\cache.js:606:18
npm ERR! at C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\node_modules\slide\lib\async-map
.js:54:35
npm ERR! at Array.forEach (native)
npm ERR! at C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\node_modules\slide\lib\async-map
.js:54:11
npm ERR! at Array.forEach (native)
npm ERR! at asyncMap (C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\node_modules\slide\lib
\async-map.js:53:8)
npm ERR! at C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\lib\cache.js:600:11
npm ERR! at readJson (C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\lib\utils\read-json.js
:21:12)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "node" "C:\\Users\\magnetik\\workspace\\npm\\cli.js" "install"
"npm" "-gf"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm
npm ERR! node -v v0.5.9
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.96
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\magnetik\workspace\npm\npm-debug.log
npm not ok```

Ask for any additionnal needed informations.

Thanjs