Solution 1: Upgrading npm actually does nothing and also complains about a cert error. Solution 2: is a terrible idea for people who have their own private reg

Solution 1: Upgrading npm actually does nothing and also complains about a cert error. Solution 2: is a terrible idea for people who have their own private registries or proxy caches. Also a security issue in general... This leaves you with needing to upgrade node, which may or may not be possible due to operating system/platform constraints. Luckily we were using this https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js/ https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js/ which makes life on ubuntu ok. We set up our own proxy cache, at this point im thinking about increasing the cache time to something like 2 weeks.