I am very new to Node.js and trying to install Flatiron using npm but it gives me an error.
sudo npm install flatiron -g
And I get -
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/flatiron
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/flatiron
npm ERR! Error: ENOTDIR, mkdir '/home/siddharthsaha/tmp/npm-28554/1353323290836-0.20847953506745398'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR! <npm-@googlegroups.com>
npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-24-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "flatiron" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /home/siddharthsaha/denarit
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.14
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.65
npm ERR! path /home/siddharthsaha/tmp/npm-28554/1353323290836-0.20847953506745398
npm ERR! code ENOTDIR
npm ERR! errno 27
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/siddharthsaha/denarit/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
What is wrong here? I have no clue.
Just solved the issue. Its because there's a file called tmp in the home directory.
rm -rf ~/tmp
sudo npm cache clear
sudo npm install -g node
Also... if you are trying to install npm then the same error and solution applies - delete ~/tmp
Try
sudo mkdir -p /home/siddharthsaha/tmp
sudo npm cache clear
before starting the install script, since npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/flatiron line states that this module is coming from cache. And also ENOTDIR states that there is no directory. Therefore, emptying the cache would solve your problem.
Below are the steps to install a given release from source without root NOTE - this installs nodejs which gives you both node as well as npm, they come together per release.
to start fresh remove prior node.js and npm installs as well as these :
sudo mv ~/.npmrc ~/.npmrc_ignore
sudo mv ~/.npm ~/.npm_ignore
sudo mv ~/tmp ~/tmp_ignore
sudo mv ~/.npm-init.js ~/.npm-init.js_ignore
to install nodejs and npm as yourself NOT root do these commands (OSX/linux) :
export NODE_PARENT=${HOME}/bin_0_10_32
mkdir ${NODE_PARENT}
download source from : http://nodejs.org/download/
cd node-v0.xxxx
./configure --prefix=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs
make -j8
make install # IMPORTANT this is NOT using sudo
# not wanted since installing into $USER owned $NODE_PARENT
which puts it into dir defined by above --prefix
export PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/bin:$PATH
define environment variable NODE_PATH so node can find dir for modules otherwise npm install xxx will put newly installed module into current dir :
export NODE_PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/lib/node_modules
when you use syntax : npm install -g some_cool_module the -g for global installs it into dir $NODE_PATH and not your $PWD
nodejs install gives you npm as well :
ls -la ${NODE_PARENT}/nodejs/bin
Subsequent modules you install using global flag -g will automagically put their ~binaries~ into above bin dir ... like browserify
Now put above three export xxx=yyy commands into your ~/.bashrc or some such so your environment is setup