npm install -g yo generator-hubot fails on CentOS 6.7

[charleshbaker]

[eam@ncreamutil001 ~]$ sudo /usr/local/bin/npm install -g yo generator-hubot

> spawn-sync@1.0.13 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/cross-spawn/node_modules/spawn-sync
> node postinstall

sh: node: command not found
npm WARN deprecated CSSselect@0.4.1: the module is now available as 'css-select'
npm WARN deprecated CSSwhat@0.4.7: the module is now available as 'css-what'
npm ERR! Linux 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "yo" "generator-hubot"
npm ERR! node v0.12.7
npm ERR! npm  v2.11.3
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn

npm ERR! spawn-sync@1.0.13 postinstall: `node postinstall`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the spawn-sync@1.0.13 postinstall script 'node postinstall'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the spawn-sync package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls spawn-sync
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/eam/npm-debug.log

[charleshbaker]

I did email the spawn-sync owners but thought this might be a problem w/ hubot-generator. Here is a gist of the npm-debug.log

https://gist.github.com/charleshbaker/7bbd967911172d6184d7

[technicalpickles]

Some possibly dumb questions:

• what does which node say? what about sudo which node?
• does it work if you become root first instead of using sudo?

Part of me thinks it's related to your environment, where things aren't consistently on the PATH when sudo npm install is run, meaning some of generator-hubot's dependency's dependencies (ie spawn-sync) fail to install.

[technicalpickles]

I haven't heard back with more info, so going to close for now. Please leave comments if anyone else runs into this!