I’m on Mac OS X and am using NVM installed via Homebrew. When I updated node with NPM, I started getting the error:

nvm is not compatible with the npm config "prefix" option

The Solution

I tried many things to fix this. Here is what worked:

$ mkdir ~/.nvm
$ brew update
$ brew uninstall nvm

Note that during the uninstall of nvm, I was warned that two other npm versions still existed. Homebrew showed me how to delete them. You should also delete them if you get the same warning:

brew uninstall --force nvm

Then reinstall nvm and a node version of your choice:

$ brew install nvm
$ brew install nvm 4.4.7 [or whatever version you want]

Also, I added the following two lines to ~/.bash_profile

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
. "$(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh"

Start a new terminal window or bash shell, and BOOM: problem fixed.

Let me know if this works for you or if you have any problems or better solutions…

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The Problem: npm ERR! extraneous

Checking out an npm problem, I tried

$ npm list

and got the following error at the end of my listing:

npm ERR! extraneous: fsevents@0.1.6 /Users/flichten/repos/cg/feature-library/feature-skeleton/node_modules/karma/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents
npm ERR! extraneous: recursive-readdir@0.0.2 /Users/flichten/repos/cg/feature-library/feature-skeleton/node_modules/karma/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/recursive-readdir
npm ERR! not ok code 0

The Explanation: Unneeded (“extraneous”) packages are installed

It seems the problem is really just a warning. NPM is saying that there are some unused, unnecessary packages installed. In most cases, this is probably an “error” that should be a warning and can therefore be ignored.

The Solution: npm prune

It’s probably safe to ignore this error. But you can clean up the unnecessary packages with

$ npm prune

Problem solved.

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