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How to install NPM behind authentication proxy on Windows?

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I need to run the latest version of Node and NPM on Windows. I installed Node 0.5.8 and downloaded the sources of NPM from GitHub. The steps I followed to install NPM were listed on its GitHub site but I have a problem running the following command: but it fails with the following error message: I …

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node cli.js install npm -gf

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worked really well for me but I had to enter it in every time I opened the command prompt. So I had to combine multiple answers and now mine is permanent. My sequence went as follows: Go to Create a file named Inside that file type the following (if…

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