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1 | 1 | npm(1) -- node package manager |
2 | | -========================== |
| 2 | +============================== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +## DESCRIPTION |
3 | 5 |
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4 | 6 | npm is a little package manager for the Node javascript library. |
5 | 7 |
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| 8 | +## Installing |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +To install npm, do this: |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | + make install |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +If you get any complaints, try |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + sudo make install |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +That will use npm to install itself, like |
| 19 | +[Ouroboros](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros). From there, you can call |
| 20 | +the command line program `npm`, and read this file by doing `man npm`. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Try `npm help` for more information. |
| 23 | + |
6 | 24 | ## Status: alpha |
7 | 25 |
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8 | 26 | This thing is a baby yet. But these kids grow up before you know it! Pretty |
9 | 27 | soon, you'll be all tapping out your pipe on the front porch, saying in your |
10 | 28 | withered old man voice, ***"I remember back before the war with the machines, |
11 | 29 | when that npm thing couldn't even install itself, and didn't know what a |
12 | 30 | version was. We used promises for everything and the global object was called |
13 | | -'node'. Movies were a nickel when we downloaded them from from the micro |
| 31 | +node. Movies were a nickel when we downloaded them from from the micro |
14 | 32 | torrents, and soda pop had corn syrup of the highest fructose imaginable. You |
15 | 33 | youngins don't know how good you got it."*** |
16 | 34 |
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79 | 97 | If you have strong feelings about package managers, I'd love to hear your |
80 | 98 | opinions. |
81 | 99 |
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82 | | -## Installation |
83 | | - |
84 | | -To install npm, do this: |
85 | | - |
86 | | - make install |
87 | | - |
88 | | -If you get any complaints, try |
89 | | - |
90 | | - sudo make install |
91 | | - |
92 | | -That will use npm to install itself, like |
93 | | -[Ouroboros](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros). From there, you can call |
94 | | -the command line program `npm`, and read this file by doing `man npm`. |
95 | | - |
96 | | -Try `npm help` for more information. |
97 | 100 |
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98 | 101 | ## What works now: |
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