eslint-config-google doesn't detect globally installed eslint

Question

Whenever I try to install eslint-config-google globally via

npm install -g eslint-config-google

I get

npm WARN eslint-config-google@0.9.1 requires a peer of eslint@>=4.1.1 but none is installed.
You must install peer dependencies yourself.

But when I do eslint --v just to reconfirm, I get v4.16.0.

I don't know where I am going wrong.

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Dependant question: Also, I have a global default .eslintrc file in my ~(home) folder which I point to from the linter - eslint package in Atom. When I save any .js file on Atom, I get

Cannot find module 'eslint-config-google' Referenced from: /Users/aakashverma/.eslintrc.js

This is my .eslintrc.js file in ~:

module.exports = {
  "extends": ["eslint:recommended", "google"],
  "rules": {
    "indent": [
      "error",
      4
    ],
    "linebreak-style": [
      "error",
      "unix"
    ],
    "quotes": [
      "error",
      "single"
    ],
    "semi": [
      "error",
      "always"
    ],
    // allow console and debugger in development
    'no-console': process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? 2 : 0,
    'no-debugger': process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? 2 : 0,
  }
}

This kind of talks about it.

Answer 1

Okay, I am not sure if this was a cache problem or something but I don't think it was because I kept restarting Atom and zsh but here's how it worked:

In Atom, I changed .eslintrc Path to ~/.eslintrc.js and Use global ESlint installation to `checked.

And this is my .eslintrc in the home folder as pointed to in Atom

And lastly, to make it work with Use global ESlint installation turned on, I included both eslint-config-google and eslint in my $PATH variable this way

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/Users/aakashverma/.nvm/versions/node/v9.4.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/
/Users/aakashverma/.nvm/versions/node/v9.4.0/lib/node_modules/eslint-config-google/

Refer to the answer by @ginna here and my comment here .