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Installation on Windows 8.1 warns for a path that does not exist

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Description

Uppon installing Keybase on Windows 8.1, it asks the user to add the app path to the PATH environment variable:

Welcome to keybase.io!

You have successfully installed the command-line client to

====> C:\Users\root\AppData\Roaming\npm\bin\keybase <=======

Please make sure C:\Users\root\AppData\Roaming\npm\bin is in your PATH.

When in reallity, the /bin directory doesn't exist:

Directory of C:\Users\root\AppData\Roaming\npm

06/10/2014 08:21

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06/10/2014 08:21 ..
06/10/2014 08:21 298 keybase
06/10/2014 08:20 318 keybase-installer
06/10/2014 08:20 226 keybase-installer.cmd
06/10/2014 08:21 206 keybase.cmd
06/10/2014 08:21 node_modules
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Reproduce the Keybase installation on Windows 8.1 and inspect the installer output that reports the npm bin path. Confirm the reported PATH location matches the directory containing the installed keybase executable, and verify the resulting command can be run from a new shell.

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Tech stack
node.js
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
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Newbie friendliness
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