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This doesn't answer your question about installing as root, but it's safer to run npm as root when installing packages.As of version 0.3, it is recommended to run npm as root. This allows npm to change...

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Are there downsides to installing node.js with root privileges?

I'm using the following code to install node: cd /usr/local/src/ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.25/node-v0.10.25.tar.gz tar -xvf node-v0.10.25.tar.gz cd node-v0.10.25 ./configure make make install #...

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