I'm trying to specifically install Node.js v6, which is proving confusingly difficult.
On a new MacBook running Sierra, I've run:
brew install node#6
This gave me:
Please note by default only English locale support is provided. If you need
full locale support you should either rebuild with full icu:
`brew reinstall node --with-full-icu`
or add full icu data at runtime following:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/Intl#using-and-customizing-the-small-icu-build
This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local.
This is an alternate version of another formula.
If you need to have this software first in your PATH run:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node#6/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
For compilers to find this software you may need to set:
LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/opt/node#6/lib
CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/node#6/include
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
==> Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/node#6/6.9.5: 3,891 files, 41.3M
If I run which node, I get node not found. If I run brew link node, I get Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/node. I also ran sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local.
How can I "link" Node.js v6 so that other software can find it? Do I run echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node#6/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc? I don't want to run anything I'm not sure of.
Don't use Homebrew to install node.
I like the Node Version Manager (NVM), and there is n (as mentioned by #ntalbs in the comments). These are better options on a Mac for node, to avoid certain. issues. later.
Note, you can install nvm and n via Homebrew. (brew install nvm or brew install n).
Related
After I updated homebrew, I can't use homebrew to upgrade node. It can't find node.
Updated Brew on mac M1
After getting this error
Error: Cannot install in Homebrew on ARM processor in Intel default prefix (/usr/local)!
Please create a new installation in /opt/homebrew using one of the
"Alternative Installs" from:
https://docs.brew.sh/Installation
You can migrate your previously installed formula list with:
brew bundle dump
I updated homebrew using:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" for my mac M1.
Then I followed the instructions for two commands brew said to run.
Then I ran these commands:
$ cd ~
$ brew bundle dump
UPDATE: $ brew bundle dump didn't do what I expected. When I look in /opt/homebrew/bin not all of the contents from /usr/local/bin are there, but I would expect them to move there.
Now Brew can't find node
$ brew upgrade node
Gave me:
Error: node not installed
but $ node -v gives
v12.6.0
And the BrewFile that $ brew bundle dump created shows node: brew "node".
I misunderstood what brew bundle dump does. It only creates a file that says the packages that brew should install.
BrewFile works like a package.json file in node.js. You have to run brew bundle install to install the packages listed in BrewFile.
So my node package was still in the old location usrs/local/bin and node was not in opt/homebrew/bin where it should be.
To fix, I moved the BrewFile into the new brew location opt/homebrew then ran brew bundle install from in that directory. Now node is in the correct place opt/homebrew/bin along with all my other brew packages.
Now which node gives:
/opt/homebrew/bin/node
It looks like this also updated node. But you have to open a new terminal. node -v will then show the newly instaled version. Your old version is still in usrs/local/bin but it looks like the paths corrected for me.
I'm attempting to get the LTS version of node installed on my machine via homebrew but I seem to be having some issues. If I run brew install node#6 to get the latest LTS version (6.10.3), everything seems to complete with no issues. Then, if I run brew list, I will see node#6 has indeed installed. BUT, if I check which version of node is installed using node -v, I receive zsh: command not found: node. I'm pretty new to homebrew and the command line in general. Where have I gone wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I can provide more info if requested. Thanks!
For those curious, I ended up just using brew install node to install the most current version of node. Trying to install node#6 was troublesome, but it seems my struggle was pertaining to an issue where homebrew required node#6 to be linked using brew link node#6 --force. More info can be found here:
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/2220
Note that I did not try this solution.
As indicated in the GitHub issue linked above, if you run brew info node#10 (replace node#10 with your version) it provides a line to add the non-latest node version to your path:
If you need to have node#10 first in your PATH run:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node#10/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
Running echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node#10/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc adds a line to the bottom of my .zshrc file:
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node#10/bin:$PATH"
If you're using Bash, it'd be your .bashrc file. I'm guessing Homebrew picks up on that, but worth double checking.
This line will add /usr/local/opt/node#10/bin to my PATH when I start my terminal. I need to restart my terminal to get immediate access. Or I can re-source the .zshrc file. I only have to do this the first time:
source ~/.zshrc
Now node works. I can verify by checking the version:
node -v
# v10.17.0
Could you check if /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH? Also, maybe run brew doctor?
I am using mac. I have currently installed Node.js 4.4.3
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$ node -v
v4.4.3
I want to update Node.js to it's latest version by following these steps.
First I tried to execute: brew update. However, I was getting the below error when I executed the command:
brew update Error: /usr/local is not writable. You should change the
ownership and permissions of /usr/local back to your user account:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
So after searching for solution on Google, I ran this command: sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
After that I again executed the brew update command. I think it was successfully executed since I didn't see any error message. Last few lines on the command prompt were:
==> Migrating HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY (please wait)...
==> Migrated HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY to /usr/local/Homebrew! Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local.
If you wish you can
return /usr/local to its default ownership with: sudo chown
root:wheel /usr/local Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$
However after this step when I execute the upgrade command, it failed.
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$ brew upgrade node
Error: node not installed
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$
I am not sure what exactly needs to be done here.
Thanks
EDIT: Executed brew doctor to check for system anomalies.
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!
Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.
Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5m-config
Warning: No developer tools installed.
Install the Command Line Tools:
xcode-select --install
Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a
brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere
with other software installs.
Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected header files:
/usr/local/include/node/android-ifaddrs.h
/usr/local/include/node/ares.h
/usr/local/include/node/ares_version.h
/usr/local/include/node/libplatform/libplatform.h
/usr/local/include/node/nameser.h
/usr/local/include/node/node.h
/usr/local/include/node/node_buffer.h
You didn't install Node using Homebrew, use this gist to uninstall your current installation of Node.
And then:
brew update && brew install node
It seems like you didn't install nodejs through brew. If you installed Node without brew, brew doesn't recognize it. I had the same issue until I realised that I installed Node with Node Version Manager. Make sure you installed it using Brew.
brew list
Will show you the things brew installed.
I tried installing node ver 0.8 on my ubuntu 12.04.It already has a node ver 0.6.12.The installation went suceesfully but when i type in
node --version
it still shows previous version.
i tried to remove previous version using sudo apt-get remove node but it says package node is not installed.But on trying node --version it shows 0.6.12
Why is it so??
The problem is, you need to replace the new location for node with the old in your PATH variable. If you have an old manual install, find the old path to node by running echo $PATH. Then run this command:
export PATH=${PATH%$OLD_NODE_PATH/bin*}$NEW_NODE_PATH/bin${PATH#$*OLD_NODE_PATH/bin}
Or if you are using an install from the apt-get repository, just run:
export PATH=$NEW_NODE_PATH/bin
And that should fix your problem. But there is a better way! The best tool to manage your node.js environment is NVM. It exactly like RVM for ruby and similar to virtualenv for python, if you are familiar with those tools. It allows you to switch versions of node and download new ones extremely efficiently, and is easy to use. Download and install with:
curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
Then add this line to your bash (assuming you are running a bash shell) where it will be loaded (I prefer .bash_login for the personal stuff although it is not loaded by default):
[[ -s $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh ]] && . $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh
Source your bash script or restart the terminal then enter this command:
nvm install 0.8.0 && nvm use 0.8.0
This should set you up just fine. Although not necessary, you should probably get rid of all the other node installs, for the sake of tidiness. Check out their github page but to get you started here is a quick overview:
nvm ls # list all installed versions of node
nvm ls-remote # list all available versions of node
nvm install 0.9.8 # download and install node v0.9.8
nvm use 0.8.0 # switch current environment to use node v0.8.0
nvm alias default 0.8.0 # set 0.8.0 as default, you can use 'nvm use default'
nvm deactivate # use system install of node
nvm run default app.js # run app.js with default node version
I had this issue until I followd the directions on
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager
which included running:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
first. Then running sudo apt-get install nodejs npm got me to 0.8.x
Also see: http://apptob.org/
Seem like you install nodejs package from Ubuntu repo and manually install node 0.8 after?
Try remove nodejs package.
The way to get a more recent version of Node.js is to add a PPA (personal package archive) maintained by NodeSource. This will probably have more up-to-date versions of Node.js than the official Ubuntu repositories.
First, you need to install the PPA in order to get access to its contents:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
The PPA will be added to your configuration and your local package cache will be updated automatically. After running the setup script from nodesource, you can install the Node.js package using the below command.
sudo apt-get install nodejs
You can check the node by using this command
node -v
I'm trying to get node.js and npm installed on my Ubuntu 11.10 installation, and I'm having a tricky time. I decided to go the route of downloading and compiling from the latest source because I want to use the new version of node.js - v0.6.0 instead of the older version that the synaptic package manager will install. However, I could not get npm set up correctly with it due to a "module not found" error. I was completely surprised at how little information I was able to find on the error.
Anyways, my goal here is to learn node.js, not to run a production environment. Should I give in and use v4.9 or is it really worth getting the newest version for the sake of learning, even if I have to go through the pain of keeping it updated and configuring it myself?
If you have Ubuntu, install it from Chris Lea's repo, it's always up to date with the last stable version (for ex now the version is 0.6.0 - as of today):
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
Generally, you want to install node from source since the packages you find in package managers are usually out of date. 0.4.12 was the last stable before 0.6.0 that was released a few days ago. 0.4.9 is pretty out of date.
This is a old question, nowadays my preferred way to install node is by using nvm (Node Version Manager). This will allow you to have multiple versions of node installed and quickly switch version.
Installation:
Install C++ compiler
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
Install NVM
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.30.2/install.sh | bash
source ~/.profile
Install node (select which version you want to install)
nvm install 6
Usage:
To set a default node version:
nvm alias default 0.12.7
To select a different installed version:
nvm use 4