trying to install pm2 via npm -g but not installed after finished

Question

When we try and install pm2 it doesnt show any pertidular errors, but its not available afterwards.

npm install pm2 -g

npm WARN install Could't install optional dependency: Unsupported
C:\c\Users\westd\.node\pm2-dev -> C:\c\Userswestd\.node\node_modules\pm2\bin\pm2-dev
C:\c\Users\westd\.node\pm2 -> C:\c\Userswestd\.node\node_modules\pm2\bin\pm2
npm WARN install Couldn't install optional dependency: Unsupported
C:\c\Users\westd\.node\pm2 -> C:\c\Users\westd\.node\node_modules\pm2\bin\pm2
C:\c\Users\westd\.node\pm2-dev -> C:\c\Users\westd\.node\node_modules\pm2\bin\pm
2-dev
C:\c\Users\westd\.node
└─┬ pm2@1.0.0
 └── ikt@0.0.0  (git+http://ikt.pm2.io/ikt.git#3325a3e39a502418dc2e2e4bf21529cb
bde96228)

then i try and run pm2, and it doesn't exist??

help needed?

Answer 1

the problem was that the config file had been set with a weird location, so it was installing to C:/c/users/me .....

we altered this and it worked correctly.