joyent/node — Issue #2213: npm installs pre alpha version by default
Author: Raynos
Created: 2011-11-28 14:02:55+00:00
State: open

Today I install node on linux by cloning the repository and checking out tag v0.6.3 then make & make install.

The version of npm that was installed by default for me was the alpha pre version rather then the stable (1.0.106) version.

This caused me issues with one of my npm install commands so I had to uninstall npm and re install the stable version from npm's install.sh script.

The fact I had to reinstall the stable version made the automatic install of npm useless.

Did I miss the obvious step where I told node to install stable npm instead of alpha npm ?

Do we need to make that step more obvious?

Should we not install npm alpha by default?