isaacs/npm — Issue #1661: Issues with npm on node 0.6 on windows
Author: woodlouse81
Created: 2011-11-05 17:41:28+00:00
State: open

I believe I've followed the installation steps correctly but have a couple of issues.

The first during the install doesn't seem all that important:

```
$ node cli.js install npm -gf
npm WARN deprecated npm@0.2.19: This version is unsupported. Please update to npm 1.0.
npm WARN npm@0.2.19 package.json: bugs['web'] should probably be bugs['url']
e:\node\npm -> e:\node\node_modules\npm\bin\npm.js
e:\node\read-package-json -> e:\node\node_modules\npm\bin\read-package-json.js
e:\node\semver -> e:\node\node_modules\npm\bin\semver.js

> npm@0.2.19 postinstall e:\node\node_modules\npm
> ./scripts/install-message.sh

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! forced, continuing Error: npm@0.2.19 postinstall: `./scripts/install-message.sh`
npm ERR! forced, continuing `cmd "/c" "./scripts/install-message.sh"` failed with 1
npm ERR! forced, continuing at ChildProcess. (e:\node\npm\lib\utils\exec.js:49:20)
npm ERR! forced, continuing at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:70:17)
npm ERR! forced, continuing at maybeExit (child_process.js:359:16)
npm ERR! forced, continuing at Process.onexit (child_process.js:395:5)
```

Not a serious issue so I tried running node:

```
e:\Node\npm>npm

node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
TypeError: Object # has no method 'getuid'
at Object. (E:\Node\node_modules\npm\npm.js:198:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:432:26)
at Object..js (module.js:450:10)
at Module.load (module.js:351:31)
at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:357:17)
at require (module.js:368:17)
at Object. (E:\Node\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\output.js:7:11)
at Module._compile (module.js:432:26)
at Object..js (module.js:450:10)
```