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INSTALL NODE JS ON WINDOWS WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS

November 18, 2022 2-minute read
Node js

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If you have your own laptop with admin rights, you don’t need to read this
article further. On the contrary if you are working in an IT company where you
can’t run any application with an admin account, it may save your time having
Node js installed in a separate folder so you can freely change or update its
content.

I had an old version of Node js installed on my laptop and I needed to update it
in order to use the Angular CLI, which is requiring a minimum version of Node js
to work.


SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES IN WINDOWS FOR NODE JS

Download the Windows Binary and unzip its content in the C:\ drive or another
folder that is easily accessible to you. The environment variables editor can
also be launched with the following command from the Windows command-line prompt
(CMD):

C:\> rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables


Now we need need to add a new variable to the Path variable inside the User
variables. Just put the path where you unzipped the content of the Windows
Binary.


SETTING ANOTHER ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE FOR NG

This step is not necessary, but as soon as you install a global package and you
want to run it from the command line, you might get an error such as:

'ng' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file


Assuming you don’t have admin rights, there’s a folder in Appdata which is
holding the node modules being installed, simply put the following path in the
system variables to solve the issue (put your username in the path):

C:\Users\your username here\AppData\Roaming\npm%


Just reopen again the CMD and you can again use both global packages and Node js
from the command line without admin rights.


TLDR

This is the only working fix that I found without using admin rights, there are
ways to solve the issue related to packages missing and not usable through
command line like changing the Node js prefix, but they still require admin
rights to work.


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