Installation not working on Ubuntu 12.04

[itguy51]

I am trying to install this package, but it does not work under Ubuntu 12.04, as it never installs the binary via NPM. I will type 'npm install -g sm', and it throws a bunch of access errors, while a 'sudo npm install -g sm' works fine, however, when typing 'sm -h' into the console, I get 'The program 'sm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install sm', which is not the proper application.

[Satyam]

+1

[jvmvik]

I have the same issue on debian 6.

• npm version 1.1.30

Here is my log file :

$grep error /home/victor/npm-debug.log

1295 error error rolling back Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar'
1295 error error rolling back [email protected] { [Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar']
1295 error error rolling back errno: 53,
1295 error error rolling back code: 'ENOTEMPTY',
1295 error error rolling back path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar' }
1342 error Error: ENOENT, chown '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js'
1342 error { [Error: ENOENT, chown '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js']
1342 error errno: 34,
1342 error code: 'ENOENT',
1342 error path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js',
1342 error fstream_finish_call: 'chown',
1342 error fstream_type: 'File',
1342 error fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js',
1342 error fstream_class: 'FileWriter',
1342 error fstream_stack:
1342 error [ 'Writer._finish (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/writer.js:305:19)',
1342 error '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:230:7',
1342 error 'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)' ] }
1343 error You may report this log at:
1343 error http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
1343 error or email it to:
1343 error [email protected]
1344 error System Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
1345 error command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "sm"
1346 error cwd /home/victor
1347 error node -v v0.8.0-pre
1348 error npm -v 1.1.30
1349 error path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js
1350 error fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js
1351 error fstream_type File
1352 error fstream_class FileWriter
1353 error fstream_finish_call chown
1354 error code ENOENT
1355 error message ENOENT, chown '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-sm/node_modules/sourcemint-pm-tar/node_modules/tar/node_modules/fstream/lib/socket-reader.js'
1356 error errno 34
1357 error fstream_stack Writer._finish (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/writer.js:305:19)
1357 error fstream_stack /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:230:7
1357 error fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)
1358 error 34 errno

[abrown28]

same here
but I'm using debian

[cadorn]

This looks like an issue with the way NPM installs binaries onto the PATH.

I'll have to revisit that and not use NPM to put sm onto the path.

[jazmit]

+1

[tricaricom]

when is this going to be fixed?

[itguy51]

It appears not to be as much an issue with npm, but with Node itself, After some checking, I decided to not use a pre-compiled version, but to try and compile it myself. This is working fine right now, However, I would consider not using a pre-compiled one if you can spare the time to build one yourself.

[nickdaugherty]

+1 Can't run sm from command line after installing

[josephwlh]

+1 ubuntu i386 12.04, npm 1.1.24, node v0.6.19

[nickdaugherty]

@itguy51 Is correct...it's a problem with the precompiled apt packages. Follow the node Ubuntu install instructions on nodejs.org and add the 'unofficial' repository, and reinstall.

[josephwlh]

I try install on Ubuantu 10.04 server, very well.

2012/10/7 Nick Daugherty [email protected]

@itguy51 https://github.com/itguy51 Is correct...it's a problem with
the precompiled apt packages. Follow the node Ubuntu install instructions
on node.js and add the 'unofficial' repository, and reinstall.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/8#issuecomment-9204984.

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[itguy51]

Following the suggestion by @nickdaugherty - Use the http://apptob.org/ tool to simplify installation.

[daxxog]

I have the same issue running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2.

[rsnyman]

"sm" is a different tool on Ubuntu. Plus, I don't see why I should have to install SM (or any other node.js app/package) as root - I don't want it muddying my OS thank you very much. npm install works for other packages, why not sm?

[cadorn]

@whodafly Hmm, I did a search on sm and did not come up with any existing tools. Can you send me a link to that project?

The current install tries to put the sm command on the PATH. The next release will fail silently if that fails and will show you a command to run to add it yourself.

[rsnyman]

@:~$ apt-cache show sm
Package: sm
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Joachim Breitner
Architecture: amd64
Source: screen-message
Version: 0.19-1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
Filename: pool/universe/s/screen-message/sm_0.19-1_amd64.deb
Size: 16866
MD5sum: 8edfc305ca094c4036e495295214432b
SHA1: 656e6a40f3fdaa9432bbd896f0a0a41d9a9a6228
SHA256: c32dc2b0a4c5c74c4f8aa0fb1742b4aeac4367ca5aaa6f21b1f34747a6284bb1
Description-en: Displays a short text fullscreen
Screen Message will display a given multi-line message as large as
possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either
when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running.
.
It is useful to send messages across a room, e.g. during an university
lecture. For fast startup, it is recommended to bind it to a key in your
Desktop Environment.
Description-md5: 91fe8f689d157fbba591713d7e201f4d
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

[rsnyman]

I'm running Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) 12.10.

[cadorn]

@whodafly Ah, of course. I heard of that feature in the past.

I still want to call the sourcemint command-line tool sm as it is short and the audiences of the two tools seem to be somewhat separate.

So, say you want to use sourcemint and install it under a different command. Would you just do npm install -g sm and then see a message that includes the command you need to link to your PATH?

What would you call it?

[rsnyman]

I'm primarily a Python developer, and I use virtualenv a lot, so being able to "install" something locally into a directory works perfectly well for me. If I'm deploying something to a production server, I don't necessarily want to install it as root either.

So, as long as I can type "./sm" I'm perfectly happy. I'm also happy with "./sourcemint" as I would just tab-complete it anyway :-)

[cadorn]

Since 0.3 is taking longer than I had hoped I have made a hotfix to try and resolve this issue.

Please try [email protected]. This will warn you if sm could not be linked into your PATH but will not fail anymore.

Please let me know if this resolves your issue for now.