title: npm install does nothing - how make it work?
body: <p>I have a trouble with npm and I haven't found solution in web.</p>
  
  <p>Today I wanted to start my adventure with nodejs, npm, bower etc.</p>
  
  <p>I use Windows 8.1.</p>
  
  <p>I installed the newest nodejs (v0.12.0). I tried these steps with both x64 and x86 builds.
  I opened nodejs command line with administrative privileges.
  I updated npm to 2.5.0 version.
  When I run <code>npm install bower -g</code> I see a char that seems to show progress (it'is rolling) but nothing happens. Even if I leave it "working" for a 30 minutes, nothing happens. It never ends.
  When I type <code>np ls -g</code> it shows only npm@2.5.0 and it's dependencies.</p>
  
  <p>I don't know what other info I could provide. There are no errors nor logs.
  Please, help.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Updated</strong></p>
  
  <p>Logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm info it worked if it ends with ok
  npm verb cli [ 'node',
  npm verb cli   'C:\\Users\\Lucek\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
  npm verb cli   '--verbose',
  npm verb cli   'install',
  npm verb cli   'bower',
  npm verb cli   '-g' ]
  npm info using npm@2.5.0
  npm info using node@v0.12.0
  npm verb cache add spec bower
  npm verb addNamed bower@*
  npm verb addNameRange registry:https://registry.npmjs.org/bower not in flight; fetching
  npm verb request uri https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
  npm verb request no auth needed
  npm info attempt registry request try #1 at 08:43:01
  npm verb request id 8d309c5e387572c0
  npm verb etag "CQDT3LW680UJR78VNWVFLN8Q7"
  npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
  npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
  npm verb get saving bower to C:\Users\Lucek\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\registry.npmjs.org\bower\.cache.json
  npm verb addNamed bower@1.3.12
  npm verb addRemoteTarball https://registry.npmjs.org/bower/-/bower-1.3.12.tgz not in flight; adding
  npm verb addRemoteTarball [ 'https://registry.npmjs.org/bower/-/bower-1.3.12.tgz',
  npm verb addRemoteTarball   '37de0edb3904baf90aee13384a1a379a05ee214c' ]
  </code></pre>