No, you can follow these steps to install it in your user home so you don't need admin privileges: https://medium.com/@samfeolu/install-your-npm-packages-globally-without-sudo-in-3-steps-d62c96a76b89 You can also use NVM to set up a user-local install of nodejs, which will let you do global installs without admin privilages: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm