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Offline mb0

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Node.js and npm.. tar not found
« on: February 07, 2012, 05:53:22 AM »
I am trying to install socket.io. I have installed node using ab, and tried to install npm with 'curl http]://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh'
This complained 'No suitable tar program found'.

Can anyone suggest how i can fix / work around this?
Thanks.

Offline Juanito

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Re: Node.js and npm.. tar not found
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 06:39:47 AM »
the base system uses busybox tar - maybe loading the gnu tar extension might help?

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Re: Node.js and npm.. tar not found
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 06:50:46 AM »
That appears to have worked, thank you!

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Re: Node.js and npm.. tar not found
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2012, 10:13:52 AM »
came across this issue again and got fairly stuck.. so for future reference heres the method;

install *all* of the following with ab: nodejs, bash, tar, curl, make and npm.
After installing all of these, then run `sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh` and then it should work.

bash, tar, make and curl extensions can be removed later if not needed.

e: also seems to need to be ran as root, 'sudo' doesn't work reliably.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2012, 02:08:00 PM by mb0 »