isaacs/npm — Issue #1723: Error installing on Windows
Author: michapixel
Created: 2011-11-16 16:06:02+00:00
State: open

I installed nodejs (http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.1/node-v0.6.1.msi) which installs into Progrmas (x86) / nodejs. i decided to put npm inside this folder , and everything went fine until:
> node cli.js install npm -gf
that ended in:
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm info using npm@1.0.105
npm info using node@v0.4.5
npm info addNamed [ 'npm', '' ]
npm info fetch http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.105.tgz
npm info shasum 782bfbd77b093d4fa70f1eee7d47537fc1796c81
npm info shasum /cygdrive/c/Users/Michael/AppData/Local/Temp/npm-1321457333847/1321457333847-0.7798196915537119/tmp.tgz
npm ERR! homeless?
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, No such file or directory '/home/Michael'
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.7(0.230/5/3)
npm ERR! command "node" "/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/npm/cli.js" "install" "npm" "-gf"
npm ERR! cwd /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/npm
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.5
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.105
npm ERR! path /home/Michael
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/npm/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

do you need the debug-log too?