I was playing around with node.js on EC2 the other day and ran into some trouble installing npm. I was getting this error
[]$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 101 7881 101 7881 0 0 94200 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 148k npm cannot be installed without nodejs. Install node first, and then try again. Maybe node is installed, but not in the PATH? Note that running as sudo can change envs. PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin |
My initial attempt at finding a resolution revolved around trying to update the path env setting used by sudo. After spending some fruitless time on this I switched gears and came across Michael Dillon‘s Stack Overflow post which recommended setting up some symlinks to resolve the path issues.
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/node /usr/lib/node sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node-waf /usr/bin/node-waf |
Minutes later npm was up and running!
Thank you, this helped!
Thanks so much, just what I needed today.