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Asked: 2026-05-27T16:15:38+00:00

If I install Benchmark.js locally with npm install benchmark than everything works good: require(benchmark)

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If I install Benchmark.js locally with npm install benchmark than everything works good:

require("benchmark") > Object

But when I try to install Benchmark globally with -g flag npm install benchmark -g, Nodejs cannot find the module (remove first the locally installed benchmark):

require("benchmark") > Error: Cannot find module 'benchmark'

I tryed under Windows and Linux both. The same results. Locally work, globally not. Can anyone help me WHY?

The mongodb module works globally.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do it using npm link. For example – express – npm link express

    npm install -g express
cd <your-application-development-path>
npm link express

    A symbolic will be created linking express

    xxx@xxx:~/Programming/web/foo$ ls -lrt node_modules
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxxx xxxx 4096 2011-12-21 17:07 .bin/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xxxx xxxx   38 2011-12-21 17:07 express -> ../../../node/lib/node_modules/express/
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