Why are my Yeoman generators installing in the wrong place?

Question

I tried installing Yeoman on an Ubuntu precise32 vagrant vm. I ran into the same problem: Yeoman did not find the generators I installed, although there were no errors during the installation of these generators. Files were in place and permissions seemed alright.

The above solutions didn’t work for me.

I ran

yo doctor

to see what was wrong, and as it turned out, the following was the problem:

[Yeoman Doctor] Uh oh, I found potential errors on your machine
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[Error] NPM root value is not in your NODE_PATH
  [info]
    NODE_PATH = /usr/lib/nodejs:/usr/lib/node_modules:/usr/share/javascript
    NPM root  = /home/vagrant/npm/lib/node_modules

  [Fix] Append the NPM root value to your NODE_PATH variable
    Add this line to your .bashrc
      export NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:/home/vagrant/npm/lib/node_modules
    Or run this command
      echo "export NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:/home/vagrant/npm/lib/node_modules" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

The fix suggested by the Yeoman Doctor worked as advertised.

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