Default tmp directory is in HOME

[pksunkara]

Is that intentional?

How can I change it?

[isaacs]

npm help config

The default tmp dir is /tmp. The default cache dir is ~/.npm, which is not a "temp" dir, though it is fine to delete stuff out of there. More properly, it's a cache.

Set the tmp dir via the tmp npm config. Set the cache dir via the cache npm config.

[pksunkara]

In Ubuntu, The default tmp dir is $HOME/tmp not /tmp

[mdeltito]

Thanks for confirming what I suspected pksunkara. Indeed, the Ubuntu package has the default as $HOME/tmp

[isaacs]

Ah, right, well... if the OS sets TMP or TMPDIR environments, npm dutifully does as its told.

[TheKojuEffect]

How can I ask npm to use ~/.tmp rather than ~/tmp in ubuntu?

[Albert-IV]

Fairly certain it's the npm config set tmp / npm config get tmp commands.

You can get more info by doing npm help config.

[josefnpat]

Opened a ticket here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/npm/+bug/1543797