I am on the latest High Sierra build.
When I am installing an npm (node), it takes up to 8 minutes to install...
/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.5.0: 4,152 files, 47.8MB, built in 7 minutes 51 seconds
Is this normal behaviour?
I am on the latest High Sierra build.
When I am installing an npm (node), it takes up to 8 minutes to install...
/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.5.0: 4,152 files, 47.8MB, built in 7 minutes 51 seconds
Is this normal behaviour?
It is not normal. I should take longer if you're building from the sources and shorter if you're installing the binary packages. See the install options at:
Also you can see this tutorial on installing Node using any type of those packages (binary and source) with exact commands that you need to run:
I never recommend installing a programming language runtime (Node, Python, Ruby, Perl etc.) with anything other than official packages because it can cause all sorts of problems. Those runtimes have their own package manager s that you should use to install modules and libraries and using something else for that can cause hard to track problems and is usually not worth the hassle. The only tool that I can recommend here is
nvm
because I've read its source code and I know what it's doing, though I would never run the recommended way of piping thecurl
output straight tobash
without seeing what I downloaded first.