{"id":1530,"date":"2013-04-02T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:04:22","slug":"installing-express-failedunknown-symlink-expressbinexpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/installing-express-failedunknown-symlink-expressbinexpress\/","title":{"rendered":"installing express failed:unknown symlink &#8216;..\/express\/bin\/express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdnblog.webkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nodejs.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1538 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnblog.webkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nodejs.png\" alt=\"node.js\" width=\"527\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdnblog.webkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nodejs.png 527w, https:\/\/cdnblog.webkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nodejs-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This happens when I am using a virtual VMwarePlayer Ubuntu OS, and install express in a &#8220;Shared Folder&#8221; pointing to a location on my hard drive external to Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>When using a location on a folder within the standard Ubuntu location, I do not get this error.<\/p>\n<p>I made it work by installing all dependencies globally one by one with sudo npm install -g &lt;package&gt;, then setting $NODE_PATH (which was empty before) to the location of the global npm repository,in my case \/usr\/local\/lib\/node_modules<code><\/code><code><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>For eg:<\/p>\n<p>sudo npm install -g express<\/p>\n<p>export NODE_PATH=\/usr\/local\/lib\/node_modules<code><\/code><\/p>\n<p>This will surely work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happens when I am using a virtual VMwarePlayer Ubuntu OS, and install express in a &#8220;Shared Folder&#8221; pointing to a location on my hard drive external to Ubuntu. 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