From cecc53ec71a3141779f9cf9e91a2cdd09995dfb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:00:00 -0600
Subject: fix(claude-code): use native installer instead of npm-global

Native install to ~/.local/bin allows auto-updates without sudo.
---
 archsetup | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'archsetup')

diff --git a/archsetup b/archsetup
index 7d62fd4..a80b3d4 100755
--- a/archsetup
+++ b/archsetup
@@ -1364,9 +1364,9 @@ developer_workstation () {
     pacman_install npm         # Node-js package manager
     aur_install nvm            # Node-js version manager
 
-    # AI coding assistant (global install requires root)
-    action="installing claude-code via npm" && display "task" "$action"
-    (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || \
+    # AI coding assistant (native install to ~/.local/bin)
+    action="installing claude-code via native installer" && display "task" "$action"
+    (sudo -u "$username" bash -c 'curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | sh' >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || \
         error "error" "$action" "$?"
 
     # HTML
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