From 4122b646c1894d7f74785278ba4396f38c5be3f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aiirvizionz <david.lopezhuerta01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:02:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Use real home directory for global installer paths

---
 packages/cli/src/installer.test.ts | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 packages/cli/src/installer.ts      |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 packages/cli/src/installer.test.ts

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/installer.test.ts b/packages/cli/src/installer.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8e708d3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/src/installer.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { globalNodeModulesDir } from './installer.js';
+
+const ORIGINAL_HOME = process.env.HOME;
+const ORIGINAL_USERPROFILE = process.env.USERPROFILE;
+
+describe('globalNodeModulesDir', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (ORIGINAL_HOME === undefined) delete process.env.HOME;
+    else process.env.HOME = ORIGINAL_HOME;
+
+    if (ORIGINAL_USERPROFILE === undefined) delete process.env.USERPROFILE;
+    else process.env.USERPROFILE = ORIGINAL_USERPROFILE;
+  });
+
+  it('uses USERPROFILE for global package paths when HOME is not set', () => {
+    delete process.env.HOME;
+    process.env.USERPROFILE = join('tmp', 'windows-home');
+
+    expect(globalNodeModulesDir('bun')).toBe(join('tmp', 'windows-home', '.bun/install/global/node_modules'));
+    expect(globalNodeModulesDir('aube')).toBe(join('tmp', 'windows-home', '.aube/install/global/node_modules'));
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/installer.ts b/packages/cli/src/installer.ts
index fe3704c4..944c96b9 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/installer.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/installer.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
 import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { homedir } from 'node:os';
 import { dirname, join } from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 import kleur from 'kleur';
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export function detectPackageManager(): PM {
 // Where the PM keeps globally-installed packages. Returns null if we
 // can't determine the path (e.g. deno; or a PM we couldn't probe).
 export function globalNodeModulesDir(pm: PM): string | null {
-  const home = process.env.HOME ?? '~';
+  const home = process.env.HOME ?? process.env.USERPROFILE ?? homedir();
   try {
     switch (pm) {
       case 'pnpm': {