Cannot use installed packages with npm - node.js

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Edit: Adding ~/npm/bin to path with PATH=$PATH:~/npm/bin helped, thank you Joachim Isaksson
EDIT:
Seems like i cannot install any packages with npm. After sucessfully installing them, i cannot use them with the assigned commands in the package. "No command '' found".
node -v
v0.11.14
npm -v
2.0.0
At ubuntu machine
It seems like i cannot install the resume-cli module, found here with using npm. Even though it installs without errors, it does not understand the basic commands after installing. Could it be a problem with the warning, showed under?
sudo npm install -g resume-cli
i get
npm WARN engine html-to-text#0.0.8: wanted: {"node":"~0.8.0"} (current: {"node":"0.10.32","npm":"1.4.28"})
Then
/home/bjornasm/npm/bin/resume -> /home/bjornasm/npm/lib/node_modules/resume-cli/index.js
resume-cli#0.3.10 /home/bjornasm/npm/lib/node_modules/resume-cli
├── cli-spinner#0.1.5
├── char-spinner#1.0.1
├── commander#2.3.0
├── colors#0.6.2
├── open#0.0.5
├── chalk#0.4.0 (has-color#0.1.7, ansi-styles#1.0.0, strip-ansi#0.1.1)
├── async#0.9.0
├── read#1.0.5 (mute-stream#0.0.4)
├── terminal-menu#0.3.2 (inherits#2.0.1, charm#0.1.2, resumer#0.0.0)
├── superagent#0.18.2 (extend#1.2.1, qs#0.6.6, methods#1.0.1, cookiejar#2.0.1, component-emitter#1.1.2, reduce-component#1.0.1, mime#1.2.11, debug#1.0.4, readable-stream#1.0.27-1, form-data#0.1.3, formidable#1.0.14)
├── resume-to-text#0.0.15 (mustache#0.8.2, html-to-text#0.0.8)
├── resume-to-html#0.0.21 (gravatar#1.0.6, resume-to-markdown#0.0.14, marked#0.3.2, mustache#0.8.2, lodash#2.4.1)
├── jsonlint#1.6.2 (nomnom#1.8.0, JSV#4.0.2)
└── resume-schema#0.0.15 (z-schema#2.4.10)
Then when running the following
resume --help
i get
resume: command not found
Anyone familiar with this?

Answer 1

Below are the steps to install a given release from source
NOTE - this installs nodejs which gives you both node as well as npm, they come together per release.
to start fresh remove prior node.js and npm installs as well as these :
sudo mv ~/.npmrc ~/.npmrc_ignore
sudo mv ~/.npm ~/.npm_ignore
sudo mv ~/tmp ~/tmp_ignore
sudo mv ~/.npm-init.js ~/.npm-init.js_ignore
to install nodejs and npm as yourself NOT root do these commands (OSX/linux) :
export NODE_PARENT=${HOME}/bin_0_10_32
mkdir ${NODE_PARENT}
download source from : http://nodejs.org/download/
cd node-v0.xxxx
./configure --prefix=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs
make -j8
make install # IMPORTANT this is NOT using sudo
# not wanted since installing into $USER owned $NODE_PARENT
which puts it into dir defined by above --prefix
export PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/bin:$PATH
define environment variable NODE_PATH so node can find dir for modules otherwise
npm install xxx will put newly installed module into current dir :
export NODE_PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/lib/node_modules
when you use syntax : npm install -g some_cool_module
the -g for global installs it into dir $NODE_PATH and not your $PWD
nodejs install gives you npm as well :
ls -la ${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/bin
Subsequent modules you install using global flag -g will automagically put their ~binaries~ into above bin dir ... like browserify
Now put above three export xxx=yyy
commands into your ~/.bashrc or some such so your environment is setup