Nodejs, Anaconda And Setting Nodepath (conda Not Updating Paths)

I've installed NodeJS in Anaconda with conda install -c anaconda nodejs but I cannot install anything globally. If I run npm install -g I get a permissions e

Solution 1:

The problem wasn't specific to nodejs but also affecting python. Turns out although the environment was loaded I needed to run

conda activate base

as specified here

https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#activating-an-environment

Seems to be related to this bug:

https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/9392