I don't want to create the .npm directry at ~ ,How can I do that?

[maozhitao12450]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This is a CLI Docs Enhancement, not another kind of Docs Enhancement.

• This is a CLI Docs Enhancement.

Description of Problem

npm WARN install Usage of the --dev option is deprecated. Use --also=dev instead.
npm ERR! code EROFS
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path /root/.npm
npm ERR! errno -30
npm ERR! rofs EROFS: read-only file system, mkdir '/root/.npm'
npm ERR! rofs Often virtualized file systems, or other file systems
npm ERR! rofs that don't support symlinks, give this error.

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[matthiaz]

What version of node/npm is this?
This seems awfully similar to #5183

[fritzy]

Please use the issue template, and the latest version. We've improved the behavior in v9.

[matthiaz]

Try setting the npm_config_cache to /tmp

That should work

$ > npm_config_cache=/tmp/ npm --version ; echo $?
8.11.0
0