Question
Ubuntu repo "nodejs" require symlink to "node" to use Forever?
- Posted July 24, 2014
Ubuntu 14.04 x64
I follow the instructions here [ https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server ] and ran the following commands; $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install nodejs $ sudo apt-get install npm
“Because of a conflict with another package, the executable from the Ubuntu repositories is called nodejs instead of node. Keep this in mind as you are running software.”
user@xxx:~ $ node --version *The program ‘node’ can be found in the following packages:
- node
- nodejs-legacy Ask your administrator to install one of them*
user@xxx:~ $ nodejs --version v0.10.25
I then installed forever; $ sudo npm install -g flatiron $ sudo npm install -g forever
user@xxx:~ $ forever --help /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
I read the info here [ https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-host-multiple-node-js-applications-on-a-single-vps-with-nginx-forever-and-crontab ] but it makes no mention of needing to create a symlink and always refers to the executable as [ $ node ]
I assume that [ $ forever ] is looking for [ $ node ] and can not find it. Do I need to create a symlink to direct [ $ node ] to [ $ nodejs ]?
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You can create a link, it would work just fine:
sudo ln -s "$(which nodejs)" /usr/bin/node
Yes. I think you can remove the nodejs package you installed using apt-get, then just create a symbolic link. When you ran $ sudo apt-get install npm it already added nodejs. The only thing messing up the system is the package name, which can be corrected by adding the following symbolic link.
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
I fired up a VPS yesterday with ubuntu and nodejs using these commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --yes --force-yes install git
sudo apt-get --yes --force-yes install build-essential openssl libssl-dev pkg-config
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.31/node-v0.10.31.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.10.31.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.31
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo npm install -g forever
sudo rm -rf ~/.npm
Hope that helps…
wrong question. See post of jellobird at stackoverflow how to fix this
I had the same trouble also i was unable to use forever command because of it, thanks for the answer!
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