Install from NPM failed

[geekbleek]

Not sure if this is an issue with the alfred-link package, but it fails to find my user's Alfred preference files when install run as "sudo". However, on OS X to install packages globally, you must run as "sudo".
Here is the original NPM error:

[Error: Alfred preferences not found at location /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences-3.plist]
npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "https://github.com/sindresorhus/alfred-npms.git"
npm ERR! node v5.7.0
npm ERR! npm v3.6.0
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! alfred-npms@0.3.0 postinstall: alfred-link
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the alfred-npms@0.3.0 postinstall script 'alfred-link'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the alfred-npms package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! alfred-link
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs alfred-npms
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls alfred-npms
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

I confirmed the preferences plist is there at the path referenced above. I cloned the repo into the global folder at /usr/local/lib/node_modules and then did removed the post install script command, and did the "npm install -g" as sudo. Then I could manually run "alfred-link" in the directory (I had installed alfred-link globally via npm first).

[kevva]

However, on OS X to install packages globally, you must run as "sudo"

This is not true, and I strongly recommend against doing it. Follow this guide instead https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/npm-global-without-sudo.md.

[SamVerschueren]

@kevva Lol, was just linking that one as well :).

It's still odd that it doesn't find the location although confirmed by the user, it is present.

[kevva]

Only thing I can think of is some weird permission error, but I'd expect it to throw EPERM then. I'd still recommend to follow the link I posted and then trying again.

And yes, I always have that link ready :D.

[SamVerschueren]

Closing this in favour of SamVerschueren/alfred-link#8 as it is an issue with alfred-link.