isaacs/npm — Issue #1724: Install failed on Windows 7
Author: samdelagarza
Created: 2011-11-16 16:23:05+00:00
State: open

I've got my node at: c:\node\bin and this is in Path variable, also the npm folder is in c:\node\

But when I try to install npm via:

node cli.js npm install -gf I get the following error:

info it worked if it ends with ok
verbose cli [ 'c:\\node\\bin\\node.exe',
verbose cli 'C:\\node\\npm\\cli.js',
verbose cli 'npm',
verbose cli 'install',
verbose cli '-gf' ]
info using npm@1.0.105
info using node@v0.6.0
verbose config file C:\Users\sdelagarza\.npmrc
verbose config file c:\node\etc\npmrc
verbose config file C:\node\npm\npmrc
ERR! Error: ENOENT, The operation completed successfully.
ERR! 'C:\node\npm\man\man1\'
ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
ERR!
ERR! or email it to:
ERR!
ERR!
ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
ERR! command "c:\\node\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\node\\npm\\cli.js" "npm" "install" "-gf"
ERR! cwd C:\node\npm
ERR! node -v v0.6.0
ERR! npm -v 1.0.105
ERR! path C:\node\npm\man\man1\
ERR! code ENOENT
verbose exit [ 1, true ]

I am behind a proxy and have http_proxy and https_proxy setup in my environment variables.