AWS Elastic Beanstalk Build Error: node-gyp requires that the user home directory is specified in either of the environmental variables HOME or USERPROFILE

I have aws elastic beanstalk for node js application and I uploaded my node js app (zip file) to my instance but I saw this error in aws logs

The Error

node-gyp requires that the 'user'\''s' home directory is specified in either of the environmental variables HOME or 'USERPROFILE\n' at new Gyp '(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v0.8.26-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/node-gyp.js:54:11

Package.json

{
  "name": "testing-beanstalk",
  "description": "Testing Beanstalk",
  "author": "Bugan",
  "version": "1.0",
  "private": true,  
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "3.x",
    "socket.io": "0.9.6",
    "mysql": "2.0.1",
    "cron": "1.0.0",
  }
}

Any idea to solve this problem? How to set user home directory?

Thank you before

[et304383]

This is not a valid fix. The module should be able to be installed without needing bash variables set.

The NPM package should be installable without any shell variables set. Please fix this. Nothing should be installed assuming a HOME directory or need a home directory value set. Nothing should be writing to the user home directory if I’m installing NPM packages globally.

[whatch]

this is still an issue; deploying to aws elastic beanstalk, and running into this same issue. Also have issues with it on windows, docker, and on it goes. It literally has to be the largest point of failure in the node world. fix it for christ sakes