StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21215059/cant-use-nvm-from-root-or-sudo
The below command seems to fix the problem
n=$(which node);n=${n%/bin/node}; chmod -R 755 $n/bin/*; sudo cp -r $n/{bin,lib,share} /usr/local
The above command is a bit complicated, but all it's doing is copying whatever version of node you have active via nvm into the /usr/local/ directory (where user installed global files should