Don't die as quickly when npm's package.json is missing

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cli.js b/cli.js
index 990ae56c9..a3e9f3273 100755
--- a/cli.js
+++ b/cli.js
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ if (printVersion) {
 var semver = require("./lib/utils/semver")
   , nodeVer = process.version
   , reqVer = npm.nodeVersionRequired
-if (!semver.satisfies(nodeVer, reqVer)) {
+if (reqVer && !semver.satisfies(nodeVer, reqVer)) {
   var badNodeVersion = new Error(
     "npm doesn't work with node " + nodeVer + "\nRequired: node@" + reqVer)
   throw badNodeVersion